Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: [16]
Balthazar: Madam, I go with all convenient speed [ Exit]
Portia: Come on Nerrisa; I have work in hand
That you yet know of; we’ll see our husbands
Before they think of us.
i) Where has Balthazar been asked to go and why? Why is he asked to go speedily? [3]
ii) What is the ‘work in hand ‘which Portia says she has at hand.? [3]
iii) Where are the husbands? Why are they away from them? [3]
iv) In what ‘habit’ will the husbands see their wives? Why? [3]
v) For what does Portia laid a bet with Nerissa? How does Portia intend to behave to
justify their disguise
Answers
1) balthazar has been asked to go to Padua to meet Dr bellario and convey portia's message to him. baltazar is asked to go speedly so that portia can reach Venice timely to rescue Antonio after she gets consent and plots along with disguising stuffs from Dr bellario.
2) portia before going to Venice was supposed to to rely upon Lorenzo and Jessica for her Throne to be maintained till she returned. also she has to disguise Nerissa and herself as lawyers to favour Antonio in court of Venice.
3) their husbands have Departed for Venice after they got letter from Antonio who seeked their presence in last hours. they are away from them because it was Antonio. who help them to win their ladies and now not to rescue Antonio from jew would prove them to be deceitful and hence they went to Venice.
4) their husbands will see them disguised as men that they shall think that there ladies are equipped with qualities of man which they really lack.
they were disguised as learned doctor and would be unknown to their own husband.
5) portia laid a bet with nerrisa to prove to be a prettier fellow among the two after they were disguised. portia will completely act like a male. she would talk in reed voice of a teenager and not take lady like short quick steps but would be taking only one manly stride for each 2 feminine steps. she would be speaking of his fights and tell quaint lies that he had been declining proposal of many maidens. she would be doing many boyish tricks as boastful fellows.
they were disguised like fellowmen of Dr bellario and proved helpful to rescue Antonio in the trial scene.
Answer:
- balthazar has been asked to travel to Padua to satisfy Dr bellario and convey portia's message to him. baltazar is asked to travel speedly in order that portia can reach Venice timely to rescue Antonio after she gets consent and plots together with disguising stuffs from Dr bellario.
- Portia tells Nerissa. she has add hand which Nerissa needn't know for the current. the sole thing she should know now's that they'll see their husbands before they think.
- Portia asks what amount of cash Antonio owes to Shylock, and so orders Bassanio to return to Venice and offer Shylock six thousand ducats to destroy the contract. She had informed Bassanio and Graziano that Nerissa and she will live like widows in their absence. all of them conform to conjoin first then go straight to Venice to rescue Antonio
- Portia says that their husbands will see them in such a dress that they'll think they're equipped with qualities of men which they really lack.
- Portia bets that being dressed as a person, she would be the smarter of the 2 (Portia and Nerissa). She claims that she would wear her dagger more gracefully and would speak sort of a man. She had convert her lady like steps into manly strides. For her to brag and lie sort of a youth would be easy and he or she would claim to possess caused many ladies to faint at the sight of this youth. She would very easily learn one thousand tricks of those boasting fellows.
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