Describe the six suitors. (Merchant of Venice) (Act 1 Scene 2)
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How does Portia characterize the six suitors?
Portia's disgruntlement with being compelled to select a suitor from the young men that her late father has arranged to come to Belmont produces some uproarious effects.
1. The Neapolitan Prince: Portia, who calls him a "colt" describes this man as obsessed with his horse and its sterling qualities. He boasts of his skills in shoeing his horse himself. Drolly, Portia says that she suspects that the prince's mother must have "played wrong with a smith", implying that she was a mare.
2. The Count Palatine: Portia describes this man of royalty as perpetually frowning. His gloomy nature permits him no joy. For instance, "He hears merry tales and smiles not." And that if she marries such a melancholic man, it will be like living another Heraclitus.
3. Monsieur Le Bon: She says that he has everybody else’s characteristics and no personality of his own.
4. Falconbridge: Portia says that this young baron from England speaks none of the languages that she knows. She describes the Englishman as having no real identity] He wears a doublet from Italy, his round hose from France, and his "bonnet" from Germany. Portia adds that his behavior also comes from everywhere.
5. The Scottish lord: With Portia's description, Shakespeare satirizes the Scots. Portia tells Nerissa that when the Scotsman was boxed on the ear by the Englishman, he promised to pay the Englishman back with the aid of the Frenchman.
6. The young German, a nephew of the Duke of Saxony: Portia indicates the German's inclination for drinking as she finds him to be inebriated all day long. She says that she hopes to find a way to live without him.
Portia's Character Sketch: Portia is beautiful, gracious, intelligent, and quick-witted, and optimistic disposition. She is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose between three caskets composed of gold, silver and lead. It is only on one occasion in the whole play that she feels melancholy, and even sick of the world.
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