Describe seven aspects of Portia's (the merchant of Venice) character and explain them.
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makes sense to ensure the best food possible is available to enhance their
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Task 1
In my school canteen, 4 people can sit together at 1 table. If 2 tables are
placed together, 6 people can sit together, as shownRitu wants to arrange a party for her classmates on her birthday in the
school canteen. She and her friends want to sit together around the tables
as per the arrangement shown. They all are 14 in number. How many
tables they need to join together? Draw the arrangement. The school canteen is a great place to promote an enjoyment of healthy eating.
For students who use the canteen regularly, the food purchased makes a
significant contribution to their total food intake and nutrition; therefore, it
makes sense to ensure the best food possible is available to enhance their
ability to learn and take in the information presented to them in class.
Task 1
In my school canteen, 4 people can sit together at 1 table. If 2 tables are
placed together, 6 people can sit together, as shownRitu wants to arrange a party for her classmates on her birthday in the
school canteen. She and her friends want to sit together around the tables
as per the arrangement shown. They all are 14 in number. How many
tables they need to join together? Draw the arrangement. The school canteen is a great place to promote an enjoyment of healthy eating.
For students who use the canteen regularly, the food purchased makes a
significant contribution to their total food intake and nutrition; therefore, it
makes sense to ensure the best food possible is available to enhance their
ability to learn and take in the information presented to them in class.
Task 1
In my school canteen, 4 people can sit together at 1 table. If 2 tables are
placed together, 6 people can sit together, as shownRitu wants to arrange a party for her classmates on her birthday in the
school canteen. She and her friends want to sit together around the tables
as per the arrangement shown. They all are 14 in number. How many
tables they need to join together? Draw the arrangement. The school canteen is a great place to promote an enjoyment of healthy eating.
For students who use the canteen regularly, the food purchased makes a
significant contribution to their total food intake and nutrition; therefore, it
makes sense to ensure the best food possible is available to enhance their
ability to learn and take in the information presented to them in class.
Task 1
In my school canteen, 4 people can sit together at 1 table. If 2 tables are
placed together, 6 people can sit together, as shownThe school canteen is a great place to promote an enjoyment of healthy eating.
For students who use the canteen regularly, the food purchased makes a
significant contribution to their total food intake and nutrition; therefore, it
makes sense to ensure the best food possible is available to enhance their
ability to learn and take in the information presented to them in class.
Task 1
In my school canteen, 4 people can sit together at 1 table. If 2 tables are
placed together, 6 people can sit together, as shownRitu wants to arrange a party for her classmates on her birthday in the
school canteen. She and her friends want to sit together around the tables
as per the arrangement shown. They all are 14 in number. How many
tables they need to join together? Draw the arrangement. The school canteen is a great place to promote an enjoyment of healthy eating.
For students who use the canteen regularly, the food purchased makes a
significant contribution to their total food intake and nutrition; therefore, it
makes sense to ensure the best food possible is available to enhance their
ability to learn and take in the information presented to them in class.
Task 1
In my school canteen, 4 people can sit together at 1 table. If 2 tables are
placed together, 6 people can sit together, as shownRitu wants to arrange a party for her classmates on her birthday in the
school canteen. She and her friends want to sit together around the tables
as per the arrangement shown. They all are 14 in number. How many
tables they need to join together? Draw the arrangement. The
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Portia is the romantic heroine of the play, and she must be presented on the stage with much beauty and intelligence. Of her beauty, we need no convincing. Bassanio's words are enough; thus we turn to her love for Bassanio. Already she has given him cause to think that it is possible that he can woo and win her, for on an earlier visit to Belmont, Bassanio did "receive fair speechless messages" from her eyes. And when Nerissa mentions the fact that Bassanio might possibly be a suitor, Portia tries to disguise her anxiety, but she fails. Nerissa understands her mistress. Portia is usually very self-controlled, but she reveals her anxiety concerning Bassanio a little later when he has arrived at her mansion and is about to choose one of the caskets. She has fallen in love with him, and her anxiety and confusion undo her. "Pause a day or two," she begs, for "in choosing wrong, / I lose your company." She thus makes sure that he knows that it is not hate that she feels for him.
Bassanio's correct choice of the casket overwhelms Portia. She wishes she had more of everything to give Bassanio: "This house, these servants and this same myself / Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring." She willingly shares all she owns with Bassanio. Once master of her emotions, she has fallen completely under the spell of love's madness. Love is a reciprocal giving and receiving, and so it is with perfect empathy that she sends her beloved away almost immediately to try and save his friend Antonio. They will be married, but their love will not be consummated until his friend is saved, if possible.
Portia's second characteristic that is most readily apparent is her graciousness — that is, her tact and sympathy. Despite her real feelings about the Prince of Morocco, Portia answers him politely and reassuringly. Since the irony of her words is not apparent to him, his feelings are spared. She tells him that he is "as fair / As any comer I have look'd on yet / For my affection." She shows Morocco the honor his rank deserves. But once he is gone, she reveals that she did not like him. "A gentle riddance," she says; "Draw the curtains."
In the courtroom, Portia (in disguise) speaks to Shylock about mercy, but this is not merely an attempt to stall; she truly means what she says. It is an eloquent appeal she makes. Her request for mercy comes from her habitual goodness. She hopes, of course, to soften his heart, knowing the outcome if he refuses. But the words come from her heart, honestly and openly and naturally.
Finally, of course, what we most remember about Portia, after the play is over, is her wit and her playfulness. Even when Portia is complaining to Nerissa about the terms of her father's will, she does so wittily: "Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?" And then she ticks off, like a computer, the eccentricities of the six suitors who have arrived at Belmont to try for her hand. They are either childish, humorless, volatile, ignorant, too fantastically dressed, weak, or have a drinking problem. She is clearly glad to be rid of them all when it is announced that they are departing.