Question

what does portia mean by'Live thou,I Live'?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Bassanio’s walking to the boxes now. He looks as dignified as Hercules did when he saved the princess Hesione from the sea monster. But he loves me more than Hercules loved the princess. I’ll play Hesione, and everyone else will be the bystanders watching with tear-streaked faces. We’ve all come out to see what will happen.—Go, Hercules! If you survive, I’ll live. I’m more anxious watching you fight than you are in the fight itself.

A song, the whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself

A song plays while BASSANIO mulls over the boxes.

SINGER

(sings)

Tell me where is fancy bred.

65Or in the heart or in the head?

How begot, how nourishèd?

SINGER

(singing)

Tell me where do our desires start,

In the heart or in the head?

How are they created, how sustained?

ALL

Reply, reply.

ALL

  Answer me, answer me.

SINGER

(sings)

It is engendered in the eyes,

70With gazing fed, and fancy dies

In the cradle where it lies.

Let us all ring fancy’s knell

I’ll begin it.—Ding, dong, bell.

SINGER

(singing)

Desires start in the eyes,

Sustained by gazing, and desires die

Very young.

Let’s all mourn our dead desires.

I’ll begin—Ding, dong, bell.

ALL

Ding, dong, bell.

ALL

  Ding, dong, bell.