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When did it suddenly become cool to hate everything? It's a growing problem, especially in the entertainment world, and no one benefits from an increasingly hard to please, pessimistic audience.
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This piece is a comment on the Jewish people, and a tribute as well. The words are from Bill Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. This is the whole monologue (only part of it is present in the artwork):
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. I highly recommend reading this play if you havent already. Shakespeare is a magnificent playwrite. The star in the center is a representation of the yellow fabric stars Jews were forced to wear on their coats around the time of WWII, to identify themselves as "others." During the Holocaust, Jews were treated like animals instead of humans. They were murdered in masses. For more info: [link] Thank you for all of your wonderful comments  |
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so~Shakespeare
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so~Shakespeare
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