Question

Salerio :Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich

lading wrecked on the narrow seas the Goodwins, I think they

call the place, a very dangerous flat, and fatal, where the

carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip

Report be an honest woman of her word.

Q1. What is referred to as ‘it’ in the first line? What’s the meaning of unchecked?

Q2. Where has the speaker heard ‘it’?

Q3. What do you know about Goodwins?

Q4. Explain ‘carcasses of many a tall ship’.

Q5. ‘If my gossip Report’ explain the figure of speech used here? What is gossip Report?

Q6. What does Solanio wish soon after this? Who meets them just after this extract?​

Answer 1

ANSWER:

1. It’ is referred to the rumour that is going on in Venice about the wreckage of Antonio’s ship in the English Channel. ‘Unchecked’ means ‘without being denied’. The speaker has heard about it in Rialto, the stock market of Venice
2. Goodwins refers to the Goodwin Sands, near the mouth of the Thames, the scene of many shipwrecks. The area is shadlow and dangerous and the remains of many a ship lie buried there.
3. Carcasses are the remains or wreckage of ships. Many fine or majestic ships have been ruined at the Goodwin Sands and their wreckage lie buried there.
4. The figure of speech used here is Personification. Report or news has been personified in the form of ‘Old mother Rumour’, who spreads stories without proof.
5. Solanio wishes that Old Mother Rumour were a lying wench that ever chewed ginger to make her neighbours believe that she mourned sincerely for the death of her third husband. He wishes that the rumour regarding the loss of Antonio’s ship were untrue. Shylock meets them just after this extract.

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Answer 2

“Why, yet it lives there unchecked, that ……………….” What ‘lives there unchecked’?