Question

marriage ?
ii) How does Antonio explain his melancholy?
iii) What wealth does Jessica take along while
eloping ?
iv) Describe Portia's speech on Mercy in your
own words.
) Why didn't Antonio lend money to his friend
Bassanio?
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Answer 1

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Explanation:

ii Another possible explanation for Antonio's melancholy mood concerns his feelings towards Bassanio. ... Antonio is forced to borrow money from Shylock, who agrees to loan him the money on the condition that he exact a pound of his flesh if the loan is forfeited.

iii The challenge for us as the audience is to decide which is worse. By this point in the play, Shylock has been subjected to much abuse by the people of Venice. On top of that, his daughter Jessica has eloped with the Christian Lorenzo, taking with her a store of Shylock's wealth.

iv Portia adds that it is mercy that humans need most from God, suggesting that the merciful person helps both the one to whom he extends mercy as well as helping himself since God will see what he has so generously done and reward him.

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Answer 2

ii) In The Merchant of Venice, Antonio begins the play with the line “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.”

• His inexplicable melancholy baffles and wearies him.
• His friends Salerio and Solanio feel that he is worried because all his ships are at sea or he is in love.
• However, Antonio says that it is neither his shops nor love that causes him distress.
• Another possible explanation for Antonio's melancholy mood concerns his feelings towards Bassanio.

iii) At the later part in the play, Shylock's daughter Jessica has eloped with the Christian Lorenzo.

• That night however, whilst her father is out, Jessica steals a casket of his gold and jewels, disguises herself in boy's clothes and runs away to meet Lorenzo.

iv) Portia adds that it is mercy that humans need most from God.

• The merciful person helps both the one to whom he extends mercy as well as helping himself since God will see what he has so generously done and reward him.

v) Antonio is unable to advance Bassanio cash because all his money is invested in ships at sea.

• But he gladly offers to guarantee a credit loan.
• So he suggested Bassanio to go and enquire from where he can  get money from Venice.

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