Ms. Miller: '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?' Okay. So talk to me, people. How does what Shylock says here about being a Jew relate to our discussion about the anger of the outcast in society?

CORDELIA: Well, how about color me totally self-involved?

Ms. Miller: Care to elaborate?

CORDELIA: Yeah. With Shylock it's whine, whine, whine, like the whole world is about him. He acts like it's justice, him getting a pound of Antonio's flesh. It's not justice, it's yicky.

Ms. Miller: But has Shylock suffered? What's his place in Venice society?

WILLOW: Well, everyone looked down on him.

CORDELIA: That is such a twinkie defense. Shylock should get over himself. People who think their problems are so huge craze me. Like this time I sort of ran over this girl on her bike. It was the most traumatizing event of *my* life, and she's trying to make it about *her* leg! Like *my* pain meant nothing.

• Academics
• Cordelia's unique world views
• Funnies

written by: Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season1/transcripts/11_tran.htm