Shylock's anger is expressed when he highlights the fact that he will be seeking revenge upon the Christians when he says 'the villainy you teach me I will execute', and declares he will do it better than they have, when he claims 'I will better the instruction'. ... Portia 'may neither choose whom she would nor refuse whom she dislikes', which she quoted while expressing her opinion on her father's will in Act 1, scene 2. ... The blunt, straightforward tone Portia uses, emphasises her anger on the inequality she must experience.These quotes demonstrat...

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John used other quotes of Shakespeare through the novel in response to all highly emotional situations, slowly introducing the reader back into the intensity and beauty of classical language after being deprived of it through the duration of the book. ... Emotions are masked by soma, whether anger, fear, or plain boredom. ...

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