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Published: 05.05.2002.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Shylock Antisemitism', 1.
  • Essays 'Shylock Antisemitism', 2.
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Paper # 1- Topic (7)
"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, heal'd by the same means/ warm'd and cool'd 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, II.i.58.
Throughout history Jewish people have been persecuted and treated in a sub-human manner for their beliefs. Now, there is…

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