Question

in merchant,gratianos starting speech,why is a young man compared to his grandsire cut in alabaster?under what condition is he likely to be infected with jaundice?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Gratiano gives the example of a warm-blooded young man who represses his spirits and forces himself to stillness till he looks like the marble image of his grandfather. He does so to advise Antonio not to remain in melancholy. He is likely to be infected with jaundice due to his bad temper.

Answer 2

Answer:

gratiano advises antonio not to be melancholic in nature and to be merryalso he tells him not to sit idle and to engage himself in his interestsso he is compared to his grandsire cut in alabaster(an idle or old man).also the elizabethians thought that jaundice was caused by the melancholic(in this case) influence of mind over body so gratiano says that under melancholic 

influence of mind over body antonio is likely to be infected by jaundice