What is the real significance of the lottery of caskets?
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suitors are presented with three caskets: one made of gold, one of silver and one of lead. If the suitor chooses the correct casket, he wins Portia's hand.
The gold casket is a symbol of greed and of materialistic and shallow people who value surface over substance.
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so the lottery of caskets is devised by portia father to find the true heir to belmont The gold casket symoblises greed the sliver resembles something it is not (self deception) and the lead a perosn must give everthing he has to get a heir as worthy as portia. the casket shows the theme of appearence over reality
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