Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Antonio: But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.
Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!
Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom: it is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which lingering penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off.
On what note does Antonio conclude his speech? What does this reveal of
Antonio’s attitude to life and death?
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Answers
These is at venice in court of justice when antonio was pleased to death he request shylock to leave him but shylock does not he gave many reason here means he compare shylock with many reason that if we tell the waves of sea to stop they may ready to listen us and they were stop but these jew not .. at last when shylock does not take his fortune back the antonio thing that now there is no chance for his survival so he is telling bassanio to give his hands means says goodbye ..
Answer:
Antonio is in a very depressed frame of mind and replies that his condition is like that of a diseased ram of flock of sheep that is fittest or most suitable for death. He is the weakest kind of fruit that drops to the ground the soonest. He asks that he too may be treated like a diseased ram or the weakest fruit and put to death. He then tells Bassanio that he cannot be occupied in a better way than to go on living and write the words that will be inscribed on Antonio’s grave.