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Updated: June 11, 2025
At this, Nerissa who, in her clerk's dress, was by Portia's side said, "It is well you wish this behind her back." But Shylock was impatient to be revenged on his victim, and cried out that time was being lost. So Portia asked if the scales were in readiness; and if some surgeon were near, lest Antonio should bleed to death. "It is not so named in the bond," said Shylock.
Are Anthonio and Shylock more individual than typical? Does the Act close with assurance of good luck or foreboding of bad? Is Bassanio a fortune hunter? Is he to blame for what follows? Why is Jessica's story intertwined with Portia's? What dramatic purposes does it serve? Are Jessica and Launce alike justified in leaving Shylock? Why?
Well, Billy had been most kinds of a fool in his life, and among others a play-actor; called himself Gaston Maundeville, and was clean daft on his knowledge of Shakespeare and his own power of interpretin' the hidden meanin' of the lines. I ain't never going to forgit the day he gave us Portia's speech. We were just under the tropic, and the day was a scorcher.
The late moon had risen, giving to Jeff a gnome-like aspect as he dug at the root of the persimmon-tree. The mysterious box soon gleamed with a pale light in his hand, like the leaden casket that contained Portia's radiant face. Surely, when he struck the "open sesame" blow, that beauty which captivates young and old alike would dazzle his eyes.
Now I must go and study Bassanio," and Bob departed murmuring, "'What find I here? Fair Portia's counterfeit?" in tones so amorous that Belden House Annie, who was sweeping on the stairs, dropped her dust-pan with a clatter, declaring that she was "jist overcome, that she was!" "Which was the only compliment my acting of Bassanio ever got," Bob told her sadly afterward.
Does Shylock get Justice, since he had refused mercy? Illustrate the legal knowledge and studies of Italian women of the Renaissance affording a parallel for Portia's sagacity and leadership. Do you think Shylock is wronged? Does Shylock so preponderate the Play as to destroy its balance, and outweighing all other characters make them insignificant?
For the first few minutes amazement and admiration held her dumb; but as the girls moved to and fro, and the details of their costumes became more apparent, she began to utter spasmodic cries of recognition, somewhat trying to the composure of the actors. Portia's description of her lovers was interrupted by a cry of, "My table centres!
Rose's whole-hearted plunge into the frivolities of a social season, her outspoken delight in it, her finding in it, apparently, a completely satisfactory solution to the problem of existence, couldn't fail to arouse Portia's ironic smile. This was the sort of vessel her mother had freighted with her hopes! This was the course she steered. She had fought this feeling with a bitter self-contempt.
Not only is it, as Johnson says, 'wildly improbable, it confuses Portia's character: it is an irritating absurdity. 'But more, for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis. We have no proof that Antonio did this. He may have done it. He was the kind of person who might like popularity. If he was really guilty of 'low simplicity, I sympathise with Shylock's hatred of him.
By and by the girl was comforted as we held the prospective of a bright future before her, and got her to talk of her studies; she recited for us a scene from AS YOU LIKE IT, and also Portia's speech, "The quality of mercy is not strained." Standing near was a boy of not more than ten years, who looked as if he would like to recite for us, and I asked him what standard he was in. "The sixth, sir."
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