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.
posted by hooliganking @ 9:31 AM
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Fantastic post buddy, as i read thru the lines, i did recall this piece i was forced to study too, of course at that time i did really not feel the depth of the speech. apparently!! And until now i was trying really hard to lay my hands on this sacred book.
Aare boss, amazing! Brings back all the memories of school, right this one speech which I had learnt by heart, and loved it equally well. The speech is about revenge but the feeling of helplessness and negligence by society strikes me even now, this one speech, even though negetive in nature, making a hero out of a villain, that is the charisma of the author.
It is probably a feelings that Al Queda will have, or some African countries where USA dumps their biological wastes, it is the feelings that the people have when they are being prejudiced againts by people more settled in society... society: the organization that killed humanity!
Kudos to you Balanuj, for reminding us of the lines... keep posting!
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