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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.
Hundreds of years ago, when Jews weren't even allowed in England, Shakespeare presented Jews as a caricature, embodied by Shylock, challenging the audience's capacity for empathy.
He demonstrated that hatred and violence towards Jews are against our Christian ethics. He contrasted the legalistic with the merciful.
Even though we must exact a righteous judgment for their wrongs, and they do commit wrongs, we mustn't allow evil to grip our hearts.
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.
Hundreds of years ago, when Jews weren't even allowed in England, Shakespeare presented Jews as a caricature, embodied by Shylock, challenging the audience's capacity for empathy.
He demonstrated that hatred and violence towards Jews are against our Christian ethics. He contrasted the legalistic with the merciful.
Even though we must exact a righteous judgment for their wrongs, and they do commit wrongs, we mustn't allow evil to grip our hearts.