PREJUDICE by Amaris Evans

PREJUDICE by Amaris Evans https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr en-us 2018-03-22 23:37:05 UTC 2018-04-02 09:35:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246347651 2018-03-27 03:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246347651 How is theme explored in the Merchant of Venice? https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246347686 The theme of prejudice is a prevalent idea throughout the play and is the key moral message. There are a selection of characters, such as as Shylock and Portia, who face prejudice due to their religion, race, gender or beliefs. Shylock faces Shakespeare creates this differences in characters to question the audience and their own acceptance of the different forms of humanity.
Racial prejudice is clearly displayed in the play involving the treatment of the Prince of Morocco.
Gender prejudice is also clear when Portia informs Nerissa that they will have to dress as men so they can go and defend Antonio against Shylock's wrath.
Religious prejudice is probably the most prominent theme, with the clear discrimination of Jews by Christians. ]]> 2018-03-27 03:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246347686 https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246348134 2018-03-27 03:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246348134 Characters that are involved in this theme https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246348405 Shylock and Antonio are the two most prominent characters involving the theme of prejudice. This is demonstrated by the discrimination of Jews by Christians.
Another prominent character involving Portia and her treatment towards the majority of her suitors.
Portia faces prejudice for being a woman, which stops her from assisting Antonio in court and forces her to dress as a man.
The prince of Morocco faces prejudice for his skin colour, which forces him to defend himself.]]> 2018-03-27 03:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246348405 Key Quotes https://padlet.com/aevans59/1vm0yglsfxmr/wish/246349534 Act 3, Scene 1
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

Act 1 Scene 3
still have I born it with a patient shrug, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit on my Jewish gabardine, and all for use of that which is mine own."
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard

And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur

Over your threshold!

Act 2,
If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I can bid the other four fairwell, I should be glad of his approach; if he have the condition of a saint and the complextion of the devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wife me."
Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun.

Act 3, Scene 4
They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit

That they shall think we are accomplishèd

With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,

When we are both accoutred like young men,

I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,

And wear my dagger with the braver grace,

And speak between the change of man and boy

With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps

Into a manly stride

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