Comparison and contrast between portia and antonio
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Contrast Antonio with Portia.
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NOELLE MATTESON | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Actually, Portia and Antonio have much in common. They are both wealthy and initially melancholy, and they both love Bassanio. Our introduction to Antonio is him saying, “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad,” and Portia’s first line states, “my little body is aweary of this great world.” Nerissa points out that this could be a sadness of the rich: “they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.” Perhaps Antonio and Portia share a sense of purposelessness. Their lives are too easy.
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Contrast Antonio with Portia.
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NOELLE MATTESON | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Actually, Portia and Antonio have much in common. They are both wealthy and initially melancholy, and they both love Bassanio. Our introduction to Antonio is him saying, “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad,” and Portia’s first line states, “my little body is aweary of this great world.” Nerissa points out that this could be a sadness of the rich: “they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.” Perhaps Antonio and Portia share a sense of purposelessness. Their lives are too easy.
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