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name the six suitors mentioned in the scence 2act 1. the merchant of Venice characteristic​

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Answered by Smritipriya
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Answer:

  1. The Neapolitan Prince
  2. County Palantine
  3. French lord:Monsieur Le Bon
  4. Falconbridge,the young baron of England
  5. Scottish Lord

6.young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew

EXPLANATION:

The first six suitors come to Belmont, and after they depart, Portia speaks with Nerissa about them.

1. The Neapolitan Prince: Portia, who calls him a "colt" [meaning a stallion] 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 [had an affair] with a [black]smith" (1.2.42), 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, "[H]e hears merry tales and smiles not." (1.2.46) Portia adds that if she marries such a melancholy man, it will be like living with "the weeping philosopher"; that is, another Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who perceived all things as one.

Heraclitus held extreme views that led to logical incoherence. For he held that (1) everything is constantly changing and (2) opposite things are identical, so that (3) everything is and is not at the same time.

3. Monsieur Le Bon: Portia cannot identify any real personality in this man: " . . . he is every man in no man."

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, either, since his manner of dress indicates nothing about him. He wears a doublet from Italy, his round hose [a lower garment that functions both as stockings and breeches] 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. (This is a sarcastic remark directed toward the French who failed on several occasions to provide promised assistance to the Scots against the English.)

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.

After Nerissa informs her that all six noblemen have left because they do not wish to abide by the command of her father that if they make the wrong choice of casket, Portia concludes with obvious relief and irony,

I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence. And I pray God grant them a fair departure.

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Answered by Rameshjangid
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Answer:

A Neapolitan prince, the County Palatine, a French lord named Monsieur Le Bon, a young English baron named Falconbridge, a Scottish lord, and a young German who is the nephew of the Duke of Saxony are among the gentlemen who have courted Nerissa. Nerissa also asks her to take a second look at the men who have courted her.

Explanation:

Step 1: ii) The Neapolitan Prince from Naples, Italy, was a dashing youngster, as wild as a horse. He always talked about his horse.

ii) The County Palatine was always frowning and unusually gloomy.

iii) Le Bon is from France, who had the characteristic of every man and had no personality of his own.

iv) Falconbridge from England, though handsome was strangely and unmannerly dressed and did not know Latin, French or Italian.

v) The Scottish Lord, was a coward and did not repay the Englishman who gave him a blow.

vi) The Duke of Saxony was drunkard. He in his sober moments, behaved less than a man and when drunk no better than a beast.

Step 2: The Neapolitan Prince, Le Bon, Falconbridge, The Duke of Saxony, The County Palatine and The Scottish Lord.

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