help me figure out this quote

slant

slant

Capitalist pig
Donor
MBTI
None
there is a quote i wanted to quote but I can't figure out what it is. It goes something, roughly, like this:

does a man not feel, does his heart not beat, does he not cry the same tears?
Click to expand...

it's a dramatic sort of monologue from i'm thinking a play, i think it was Shakespeare but google isn't bringing anything up, and it seems like it was much longer than this.
 
Idk but it's pretty. are the words "as a woman" supposed to be at the end or was that either in the context or completely something else?
 
it's from some sort of play or something, it's written in old english
 
I recognize it but can't put my finger on where it's from. It defiantly sounds like Shakespeare.
 
Phoenix Down said:
context would help a lot.
All I can really say is. Tricolon crescens.
Click to expand...

well I don't think it's Shakespeare but it is some sort of play, I think it's about some sort of prejudice, and it's some angry guy making a speech, like I think he's a slave or black or somehow seen as lesser by some group of people so he does this monologue all dramatically, again, it's old
 
dream echo said:
Not sure if this is what you were referring to...but try Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Click to expand...
Yeah, this is what I thought of as well.
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?
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 villainy you teach me, I will execute,
and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
(Act III, scene I)
Click to expand...
 
slant said:
it's from some sort of play or something, it's written in old english
Click to expand...

Actually, it's Elizabethan English if it is Shakespeare. Old English is far more incomprehensible as is middle English.

-your friendly neighborhood smart ass.
 
Phoenix Down said:
Actually, it's Elizabethan English if it is Shakespeare. Old English is far more incomprehensible as is middle English.

-your friendly neighborhood smart ass.
Click to expand...

no it's old english, meaning people used it a long long long time ago before I was born
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top