Cassi’s Blog

So its all starting to click with me now. I’m finding the humor in the characters tones and the deeper meanings in the story line. Shakespeare was using stereotyping to form a comic plot but underneath the text, through Shylock, the true meaning of prejudice comes out.

Shylock brings up that he, as a human, has the same senses, feelings, and appearance as a Christian. He is warmed and cooled by the summer and winter seasons as well as a christian. So tell me why that when a christian spits upon a Jew its considered comical, but if a Jew were to do the same thing in revenge then he would be punished?

Poor Shylock, i truly pity him because of all the things he has to put up with in his life because he is labeled as a Jew. Not only that, his only daughter ran off with a boy, not any boy, a christian boy, and with them all of Shylock’s money. Now god be damned if Shylock wouldn’t want a pound of flesh from Antonio. Maybe his sweet revenge on a christian will help him cope with his difficulties in life that have been brought upon him by his daughter.