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He sharpens his knife on his bootsole. He raises it, ready to plunge it into Antonio's bosom. And then suddenly he is stopped - to the relief, presumably, of all right-thinking people. ) Portia and Gratiano torture Shylock with his guilt until, when he can stand it no more, he utters his fateful and helpless last speech: 32 The Politics of Shakespeare I pray you give me leave to go from hence, I am not well, - send the deed after me, And I will sign it. (IV, I , 390--2) This is his worst moment.
Everyone who comes into contact with him is repelled by his bodily form and shape. Even Ariel, who is stranger, or more inhuman, than Caliban in his ability to fly and hide and change his shape, and is regarded as quaint and delicate, takes it on himself to side with Prospero in oppressing the 'monster' when he and it share a similar fate under the magician's heavy hand. Most complex, perhaps, of all, is Miranda's sense of revulsion against Caliban. Having no memory of men or sense of social behaviour other than those learned from contact with her austere and tyrannical father, it is not clear where her feelings of antipathy for Caliban stem from.
The joining together of what God in his wisdom had decreed should remain asunder.? There is a widely practised taboo on the mixing of kinds. " The analogy in human terms is all too familiar in the modern world. Racial, national, and religious mixing have been prohibited for centuries on the grounds of unnaturalness. The modern world finds the concept of unnaturalness somewhat embarrassing and replaces the argument with the more rational but no less persistent and prohibitive arguments taken from sociology and psychology.