... thousand ducats?" Or shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, with bated breath and whisp"ring humbleness say this: "Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last; You spurned on me such a day; another time you called me "dog" and for these courtesies I"ll lend you thus much moneys?"" (I, iii, 35) Shakespeare portrays Shylock in a negative way with reference to the gruesome ... particular, Shylock states when describing Antonio, "I hate him for he is a Christian, but more for that in low simplicity he lends out money in low gratis and brings down the rate of usance here with us in Venice....

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... evident when Shylock privately addresses the audience and says: "I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity He lends money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice"- Act 1 Sc 3 ln34-37 This passage also makes evident another stereotypical characteristic of Jews; miserliness. From reading Act1 Sc3 it is evident that ... Shylock has in the past been treated badly by Antonio; "Signor Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies and my usances. Still have I borne it with a patient shrug For suff"rance is th...

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... which he expresses in words like "I hate him for he is a Christian" he still loans money to them and acts as if nothing is wrong between them. However the interest rate for borrowing such money is extortionate, making him a seriously healthy profit, a very powerful business man. He is so fixated with his money he is afraid to leave his house in ... else has to say he is obsessed with getting Antonio's "pound of flesh" this is expressed by him saying "there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me" as far as he is concerned no one can say anything to change his mind all in is interes...

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