Snape as infidel was Re: Kant and Snape and Ethics and Everything

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 150409

Irene:
> I hope not, because some analogies are quite scary. Since someone 
> mentioned Shylock, I can't get it out of my mind.
> The Gryffindors are written as brave, merry, cheerful. They would 
do 
> anything for a friend, just like Antonio and Bassanio. Red and 
gold all 
> around.
> And here we have Snape, the oddball, all in black. Miserable, 
never 
> laughs, keeps grudges, vindictive. Would not it together with the 
Order 
> members.
> 

a_svirn:
But that's the very picture of Antonio, not Shylock. The play starts 
with his 

 "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you"

And throughout the entire play he's miserable, moody, uncivil and 
lonely.