Explain how is beauty purchased by weight? How does it make the wearers lightest? (Give the two meanings of the word: lightest.)
Merchant Of Venice
Act 3, Scene 2
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First, Bassanio asks us to examine the universal idea of beauty which can be “purchased by the weight." Weight refers to “weight in gold” and also refers to the weight of make-up – money can buy beauty because money can by make-up and provide ornamentation to the face.
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beauty is purchased by weight by buying make up items from chemist shop and the women who wears the most make up is the one who is lightest in character. it means that she only thinks of outward appearance and spends money in the usless artificial beauty.
lightest
1 which is light in weight
2 which is very shallow
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