How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #7
But now experience, purchased with grief,
Has made me see the difference of things. (3.3.61-62)
Abigail is one of the few characters who doesn't make a lot of bigoted remarks. Here, though, when she's committing to really become a nun, she says she's become sensitive to the "difference of things," a signal that even she is becoming prejudiced. But is this really prejudice? Maybe not. She sees the difference through "experience"—the exact opposite of pre-judice.
Quote #8
Ithamore: 'Tis a strange thing of that Jew: he lives upon pickled grasshoppers and sauced mushrumbs.
Barabas: [Aside]: What a slave's this? The Governor feeds not as I do.
Ithamore: He never put on a clean shirt since he was circumcised.
Barabas: [Aside]: Oh, rascal! I change myself twice a day.
Ithamore: The hat he wears, Judas left under the elder when he hanged himself.
Barabas: [Aside] 'Twas sent me for a present from the Great Cham. (4.4. 60-67)
Ithamore was all about being Barabas's "fellow" when he was a disempowered, newly bought slave. But now that he's sitting pretty with Bellamira and her pimp, he gets to be to be as prejudiced as everybody else. Also, was anybody else amused that Barabas has a hat given to him by a Chinese Emperor who's been dead for 300 years or so?
Quote #9
To undo a Jew is a charity and not a sin. (4.4.79)
Ithamore is echoing Barabas's earlier declaration to Abigail that "It's no sin to deceive a Christian" (2.3.309-12). The Christians and the Jews both appear to believe that you only have to be nice to people in your own religious communities. Nice people, right?