In Sooth I Know Not..

To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will

feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half

a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned

my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated

mine enemies, and what's his reason?--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. 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 villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard

but I will better the instruction.




Now that is called a speech!! anyone who is not familiar with the above mentioned dialogue please take a moment to search this dialogue in google and then read the book it belongs to...
i was in the eigth standard when i was forcefully made to read this despite having literary genius' all over the world failing miserably to exactly explain the gravity of this speech!! but i was forced to... and thank god for that. the book has been with me ever since and i love it, cherish it like a kid because of this single speech. Hail the genius of Shakespeare. Still waiting to get hold the DVD of this masterpiece where this speech has been delivered by Al Pacino...now thats an unbeatable combination.