Vho is the Venetian that Nerissa mentions? What does Nerissa say about
im, and what is Portia's response?
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Answer:
Portia and Nerissa remember the young Venetian Bassanio favorably. Now he was worthy of praise.
Explanation:
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Answer:
in this scene, is rather despairing of ever marrying--even if she lives to be as old as Sibylla she'll die as chaste (pure and untouched) as Diana, the virgin goddess. She laments her inability to do her own choosing of a husband because of her father's posthumous and rather unconventional plan for selecting a groom--they must choose the correct casket full of coins in order to win her hand.
"O me, the word 'choose!' I may
neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I
dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed
by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,
Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?"
Nerissa's reply is fairly straightforward and simple. She clearly does not think it's a "hard" fate--though that's much easier for her to say since she doesn't have to live with the edict herself.
"Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their
death have good inspirations:"
Nerissa believes Portia's father father was