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Austin Bernard Period 6

III.i.36-38 Salerio

“There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish.”

Salerio is saying that Shylock and Jessica are very different from each other. While Shylock is cold hearted and cruel, Jessica is a fair lady that is warm and loving.

III.ii.101-107 Bassanio

Therefore, thou gaudy gold, hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge ‘tween man and man. But thou, thou meager lead, which rather threaten’st than dost promise aught, thy paleness moves me more than eloquence; and here choose I. Joy be the consequence!”

Bassanio is rejecting the gold casket, for it would only be tempting to a man like Midas, which is referring to the story of King Midas. He also rejects the silver casket, as it is used to bargain between men. Instead, he is humble, and chooses lead as the casket containing Portia’s portrait, hoping that it will be the one.

"Kaitlin Langervin Period 6

Salerio (3.1.36-38) “There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish.” ~ What Salerio is saying to Shylock here is that him and his daughter Jessica are two completely different people, even though Shylock does not want to admit to it. Before Salerio said that to him Shylock said, “I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood.” (3.1.35) Shylock had just heard about his daughter running away with a man of another religion when Salerio said this to him.

Jessica (3.5.17.) “I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a Christian.” ~ Jessica already put a lot of trust into her husband even though they had just gotten married, and when saying this is trying to defend herself in an argument with Lancelot because she was Jewish and her husband is Christian. I do not think that it is right that two people could not get married just because of their religions without it being a huge event. After Jessica said that to Lancelot he said, “Truly, the more to blame he! We were Christians enough before, e’en as any as could well live one by another. This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.” (3.5.19-24)

Kate Bonney Shylock 3.1.41-47 “There I have had another bad match! A bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the mart! Let him look to his bond. He was wont to call me usurer. Let him look to his bond. He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy. Let him look to his bond.” In this passage, Shylock is telling Salerio and Solanio that he intends on keeping the bond he made with Antonio, that if Antonio failed to pay him he would take a pound of his flesh. Shylock is already upset about his daughter running away with a Christian and he has no sympathy for Antonio, a Christian. He is relishing the fact that Antonio, who used to treat him so poorly is now reduced to a poor and ashamed man. He thinks that Antonio was foolish for lending out his money for friendship because he has come out of the deal so badly.

Portia 3.2.1-3, 16-18 “I pray you, tarry. Pause a day or two before you hazard, for in choosing wrong I lose your company.... One half of me is yours, the other half yours-mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, and so all yours.” Portia doesn’t want Bassanio to choose from the chests because she is afraid he will choose wrong and she will never see him again for she really likes Bassanio. She is already convinced that she loves him and is ready to give herself to Bassanio. I imagine that she is greatly troubled between letting him choose from the chests in hopes that he chooses right and holding off letting him choose because of the chance that he might choose the wrong chest.

Sam Morse Shylock: (3.1.60-67) If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Shylock is stating that all men are people, regardless of their religion and that Jews are not “heartless” regardless of what Christians may think of them. Based on what Shylock is saying, Antonio obviously wronged him in the past, and now Shylock is determined to get revenge. Shylock plans to wrong Antonio, for that is what Antonio did to him. For example when Shylock says, “If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge.” (3.1.65-67)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bassanio (3.2.88-91) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Look on beauty, <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">And you shall see ‘tis purchased by the weight, <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Which therein works a miracle in nature, <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Making them lightest that wear the most of it.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">To me Bassanio is stating the unfortunate yet common fact that people are judged by their appearance first. When he says, “Which therein works a miracle in nature,” (3.2.90) he is referring to how people’s instincts automatically put others who are attractive as the “better choice,” versus a person who may be much more intelligent and kind.

<span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lindsy Crutchfield

<span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lorenzo (3.4.36-37) <span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Madam, with all my heart, I shall obey you in all fair commands. " <span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Lorenzo is talking to Portia in this scene. I wonder if it' s going to be some secret affair or love triangle sort of thing between Portia, Jessica, and Lorenzo. Before this, Portia states (3.4.24-25) "Lorenzo, I commit into your hands the husbandry and manage of my house." and (3.4.34-35) The which my love and some necessity now lays upon you." So I think there's going to be some secret love going on or something, but we'll have to see.

<span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jessica (3.5.17-18) <span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a Christian" <span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- I wonder why she is so happy to be a Christian. You would think that you would always believe in your faith no matter what, but I guess Jessica isn't too happy with being Jewish.

<span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(*extra) Lorenzo (3.5.27-28) <span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Lancelot, if you thus get my wife into corners." <span style="color: #a13090; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Lorenzo is getting jealous of Lancelot being around Jessica when he is talking to Portia in a kind of cheating way? I guess Lorenzo needs to find what he really wants.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Merchant of Venice, Act III <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sam Cummings


 * 1) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">“There is no difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more than your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish.” (Salerio, 3.1, 36-38)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Salerio is talking to Shylock during this scene, saying that Shylock and his daughter are of the same blood, the same flesh; is is saying ‘What makes her so wrong? She is of you, how can you say that you are different?’
 * 1) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” (Shylock, 3.1, 55-63)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This is a very famous speech made by Shylock, talking about his people. This makes me think of history; when I think of the Holocaust, or of the Civil Rights era, and many other points in history... All of those people probably have thought of the same ideas, they are people, not animals, so we got to stop treating them like they are less than cattle.

Cassidy Bigos

(III.i.49–61) Shylock "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. ? Shylock is saying that he is Jewish and a person just like a Christian is in every human way possible. Both can be killed with the same weapons, disease, healed the same, and even be the same in summer in winter. Jews can bleed and laugh just like a Christian, also both can bring revenge on the other but if a Jew wrongs a Christian it is revenge but if a Christian wrongs the Jew then what should the punishment be. The Christian will find out what revenge really is and I will be hard on the Christian with my full authority. Shylock is overall saying that if Christians can revenge a Jew for wronging them then a Jew( Shylock) will do the same thing back to Salerio with much more hate.

Portia ( III.ii.48-60) " Then the music is even as the flourish when true subjects bow To a new-crowned monarch. Such it is as are those dulcet sounds in the break of  day that creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear and summon him to marriage. Now  he goes, with no less presence, but with much more love, than you Alcides when he  did reedem the virgin tribute paid by howling Troy to the sea monster. I stand for sacrifice; the rest aloof are the  Dardanian wives, with bleared visages, come forth to view he issue of the exploit. Go Hercules!"

Portia is anxiously waiting for Bassiano to pick a chest out to see if she can marry him. The music is like the sounds of trumpets, like when a new subject of royalty bows, such as the sweet and soothing sounds in the morning hours. The sounds creep into the dreaming persons ear and summon him to marriage. Now he picks, acting the same as usual with no fear but with love in his mind. Then you Hercules, he saved Troy from the sea monsters and I stand her for sacrifice, the rest of the wives stand silent with a dim look. Come forth to view the chests and pick the right one, go Hercules. Portia is thinking to herself about how much she wants Bassanio to pick the right chest because she really does love him and if he chooses wrong she would not be able to bear being without him. Portia is dreaming the very moment as being magical, comparing her dear Bassanio to Hercules with all of the strength and wisdom like Hercules he has. Bassanio is like Portias knight in shinning amour in this passage basically.


 * Stormi Henderson **
 * Period 6 **
 * Shylock: **
 * (Pg 89. 57- 60) **
 * "Fed with the same food, hurt **
 * With the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, **
 * Healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the **
 * Same winter and summer, as a Christian is?" **
 * He doesn't see why being a Jew makes a difference. Jews are just like other people, the same things happened to them, like they can get the same diseases as any other person, but still Antonio has caused him to seek revenge. **
 * Shylock: **
 * (Pg. 89. 50-51) **
 * "To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, **
 * it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and **
 * hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, **
 * mocked at my gains, scorned my nation" **
 * Antonio embarrassed him in every possible way and just antagonized him. **

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ryanne Dailey **__ __**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">pd. 6 **__

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">“Before you venture for me. I could teach you how to choose right, but then I am forsworn. So will I never be. So may you miss me. But if you do, you’ll make me wish a sin, that I had been forsworn.”
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Portia(3.2.10-14) **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Now Bassanio wants to choose to open a casket. Portia is saying that he should wait before he chooses one, because she could show him which one to pick, she would be giving up the secret. She can’t give up the secret, but this may cause Bassanio to choose the wrong one and have to leave, to never speak to her again. She says that if he does choose the wrong one, then she will wish she had told him which casket choose, even though she can’t tell the secret. She is having trouble deciding what to do, because she really wants Bassanio to choose the right casket, instead of one the people she doesn’t like. I think he will choose the wrong one, and she will be very upset. This reminds me of when you want to tell someone a secret, but you know that you can’t without dealing with the consequences. Kate’s quote is similar, but in addition to her response, I think that Portia is going to try to give Bassanio some kind of clue so that he will have a better chance of choosing right.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(reading from the scroll)“You that choose not by the view chance as fair, and choose as true. since this fortune falls to you, be content and seek no new.”
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bassanio(3.2.131-134) **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The scroll found in the lead casket explains that it is better to not choose something based on how nice it looks, because it might look really nice, but underneath, it is not a good choice. You should choose based on what you think is the right choice. The scroll says that Bassanio has been fortunate to choose the right casket, so now he should be happy and not hope for something else as well. This made me think about how you learn to be happy with whatever you have, and you don’t always wish for more, even if other people have more or better things than you. Like when you receive a gift, you are happy that the person thought to give you a gift, you are not angry that the gift is not what you had hoped for, or that it was not expensive.

Michelle Morrison pd.6

Shylock(3.1.83-85) “I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”

Shylock is saying this because his daughter stole his jewels and money. I can’t believe that the man would rather have his daughter dead and have his money then be able to see his own daughter again. All Shylock cares about is his money and wealth, he doesn’t even care that he will never see his daughter again, he wishes that she were dead.

Lorenzo(3.5.47-48) “Goodly Lord what a wit-snapper are you! Then bid them prepare dinner.”

Lorenzo says this to Lancelot after he makes a “smart-mouthed” remark to Lorenzo’s request to, “bid them prepare for dinner.” Lancelot said, “That is done sir they all have stomachs.” Which meant that they are all prepared for dinner because they are all hungry. Lorenzo humors Lancelot’s joke, and acknowledges that it was well said.

Jenn Smith period 6 **Bassanio 3.2.33** “Promise me life, and I’ll confess the truth.” Bassanio is talking to Portia in this scene. He wants to confess to Portia but is afraid his life will be taken if the action is done. Portia follows this statement by saying; “Well then, confess and live.”

**Salerio 3.1.36-38** “There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish.” What Salerio is saying is that the difference between Shylock and his daughter is very little. Since they’re of the same blood and flesh Salerio is wondering why Shylock doesn’t accept his daughter by saying that she’s different and denying that she’s even his daughter.

Caroline Bergendahl

Shylock 3.1.98 I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him. I’ll torture him. I am glad of it.

In this part of the play, Shylock is showing his more disturbing side, and he swears he’ll get revenge on Antonio. He also blames him for Jessica running off with Antonio’s Christian friend, and that just makes him that much more angry as Tubal tells him that he saw Jessica selling Shylock’s stuff and buying trivial things with it.

Reading from the note inside the lead box (note from Portia’s father) 3.2.136 You that choose not by the view, Chance as fair and choose as true. Since this fortune falls to you, Be content and seek no new.

Bassanio opened the lead box, and found Portia’s picture inside. There is a note from Portia’s father inside as well. I liked this quote because it shows that even though the process for finding Portia a husband has been toilsome, it pays off because someone worthy is chosen. Bassanio guessed that the lead box held her picture because he risked everything to get as far as the boxes, and he wants to marry Portia really bad. So the note tells him that because he has won Portia, he should be happy with her.

Justin Chartier

Salarino (3.1.17)

“I would it might prove the end of his losses.”

Solanio and Salarino had been talking about the news of the Rialto (one of Antonio’s ships) sinking. Salarino says he hopes this is the only ship that Antonio loses. This proves to be wrong as later, every single one of Antonio’s ships ends up sinking and he gets in deep trouble because he has no money to pay back Shylock with.

Shylock (3.1.105-110)

"Nay, that’s true, that’s very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an officer. Bespeak him a fortnight before.—I will have the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of Venice I can make what merchandise I will.—Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue. Go, good Tubal. At our synagogue, Tubal."

Shylock and Tubal were discussing another one of Antonio’s shipwrecks. This one happened in Tripolis. Shylock is happy when he hears the news and is hoping he can get revenge on Antonio. He tells Tubal to go find a police officer to arrest Antonio and says he will take Antonio’s heart if he isn’t able to pay. Antonio is arrested and put in jail.

Mykala Emery Bassanio (reading Antonio's letter); (3.2.320-322): "If your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter." Antonio is basically saying that if Bassanio does not come to help him simply because they're friends and because they supposedly love each other, than not to come help him just because he had written him a letter and he would feel guilty if not.

Lancelot; (3.5.1-7): "Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children; therefore, I promise you, I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be o' good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope, neither." I chose this quote mostly for the fact that in "Oedipus Rex" we had learned about the "sins of the father" so I made the connection there, that Lancelot is saying that Jessica is going to suffer for what her father (or in her case, parents) did, and that she is just like them in many ways.

**Brett Whittemore**

Salerio 3.1 (36-38)

"There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish."

Salerio is basically telling Shylock that him and his daughter Jessica are so unalike that they don't even seem like family. Shylock doesn't is stubborn about this as any father in this situation would be but Salerio strongly believes that his assumption is accurate.

Jessica 3.5 (17-18)

"I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a Christian"

This is another example of Jessica and her father being so different. Shylock has a strong belief in his jewish religion and his daughter is happy to become a christian.

Ashley Mackin “There is no more difference between thy flesh and hers than / between jet and ivory; more between your bloods than there is / between red wine and Rhenish. But tell us, do you hear whether / Antonio have had any loss at sea or no?”3.1.36

Shylock insists that Jessica is still his blood, still a part of him. Here, Salerio is bringing realization that she in fact is not. If she were part of Shylock, why would she leave him with no one else in the world? Shylock grasps the fact that he is all alone. Not only is there that essence of loneliness, there is betrayal. To leave her father for a Christian, that was treason to him.

“Well jailer, on; pray God Bassanio come.” 3.3.35

Antonio knows that he is sealed to his debt. He must sacrifice his own Flesh to pay off the Jew. He doesn’t use a stratagem to save his own self. Instead, all he asks if for his dear friend. All we wishes for is to be loved and given attention before his pound of flesh is laid hold of by Shylock.

__ **Kayla Gaudin** __

Shylock 3.1 (3.1.57-62) "Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickles us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?"

Shylock is protesting his feelings about how his religion should not make his any less of a person. How he should be treated the same even though he is a Jew. His whole life he has been discriminated and not known why, he is a person just like everyone else in the world. So why should he be treated any different because of something he is on the inside.

Bassanio 3.2 (3.2. 28-31)

"None but that ugly reason of mistrust, Which makes me fear th'enjoying of my love. There may as well be amity and life 'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love."

Bassanio is telling Portia about being betrayed and that he doesn't want her to just enjoy his love and the betray and leave him. His love is something special and it should be embraced.

Silvia Lutick

Shylock (3.1.83-85)

“Two thousand ducats at that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! Would she hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”

Shylock is upset at the fact that his daughter stole his jewels and money. He doesn’t care or is considerate of his daughter but only of his money. He would prefer his money over his daughter.

Tubal gives news, ( 3.1.101-102) “Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night fourscore ducats.” Shylock’s response: (3.1.103-105) “Thou stick’st a dagger in me. I shall never see my gold again. Fourscore ducats as a sitting? Four score ducats?”

Shylock’s response to Tubal’s news proves he cares only for his money and pays no interest in his daughter.

Shylock (3.1.108)

I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him, I’ll torture him. I am glad of it.

It seems clear throughout the play that Antonio does not like Shylock because he is a Jew. Antonio has been ignorant by prejudicing Shylock. This is a passage that shows Shylock’s determination to seek out revenge toward Antonio. Shylock feels strongly that he needs to get Antonio back because he has been treated cruelly by Antonio. Shylock hates the fact that because he is a Jew he is put at a lower level than Christians. In reaction to this, Shylock is unyielding in torturing Antonio for his cruel ignorant acts against him.

LEXI NOYES 3.4.43

Jessica “I wish Your Ladyship all heart’s content”

Jessica is congratulating Portia for her engagement to Bassanio. I think its weird that since Portia and Bassanio are getting married, Gratiano and Nerissa are getting married now also.

3.5.25

Jessica “I’ll tell my husband, Lancelot, what you say. Here he comes.”

Everyone is obviously disapproving Jessica’s decision to runaway with Lorenzo with all of her father’s money. People don’t like the fact that Lorenzo is a Christian. Jessica says this because Lancelot is “bashing” her decisions and he threatens to tell on him.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMBYR WILSON :) Gratiano (3.2.205-208)

“With oaths of love, at last, if promise last, I got a promise of this fair one here To have her love, provided that your fortunes Achieved her mistress.”

Gratiano is telling Bassanio and Portia that he has fallen in love with Nerissa. Nerissa has also fell in love with Gratiano. Bassanio thinks it would be best if they had their wedding together. Gratiano and Nerissa fell in love while Bassanio was choosing a chest for Portias love. We can tell that Portia secretly likes Bassanio, but she cannot help him chose a chest. He must chose on his own, and he chose the right one.

Nerissa (3.2.186-188)

“My lord and lady, it is now our time, That have stood by and seen out wishes prosper, To cry, “good joy.” Good joy, my lord and lady!”

Nerissa is telling Portia of how it is now their turn to be happy and get married. Portia has finally had a man choose the right chest and get to take her hand in marriage. Nerissa fell in love with Bassanio’s wing man. Now they both will be married together and be happy with their new husbands.

Travis Shylock 3.1 (3.1.57-62) "Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickles us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?"

Shylocks is talking about how Jews are no different from anyone else. They are stereotyped because of their beliefs. He mentions emotions and feelings that all humans have and how everybody reacts the same way even if they have a different religion. If anybody gets poisoned, the die regardless of their beliefs. Shylock is trying to prove himself and Jews equal to others

Salerio 3.1 (36-38) "There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish."

Salerio is talking to Shylock about his daughter. He is saying that he and his daughter are nothing alike and they don’t even seem like they would be related. This reminds me of my family because I look a lot like my mom but look nothing like my dad. My brother looks a lot like my dad and doesn’t look anything like my mom.