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Shylock:What should I say to you? Should I not say, ‘Hath a dog money? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?’ or Shall I bend low, and in a bondman’s key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness Say this: ‘Fair Sir, you spat on me on Wednesday last; You spurn’d me such a day; another time You call’d me dog – and for these courtesies I’ll lend you this much moneys’?

Antonio: I am as like to call thee so again, To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not. As to thy friends, for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? But lend it rather to thine enemy; Who if he break, thou may’st with better face Exact the penalty

(i)Comment on the racial hatred as depicted in this extracted portion​

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This extract is taken from the play Merchant of Venice and  evinces a tete-a-tete between Shylock and Antonio. So, Antonio, a rich merchant, becomes bankrupt while investing in ships and now he wants to borrow money to keep him up and running.  He then decides to borrow money from Shylock and Shylock who is reluctant at first to pay him a hefty sum of money initially abuses him racially, but after some real convincing  and blarneying from Antonio he succeeds in the gargantuan task of borrowing money from Shylock.