What's up with the Jessica-Lorenzo side plot? How does this story support the main plot structurally? Thematically? What's the effect of having it there at all?
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Jessica is the daughter of Shylock, a
Jewish moneylender, in William Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice (c. 1598). In the play,
she elopes with Lorenzo, a penniless Christian,
and a chest of her father's money, eventually
ending up in Portia and Bassanio's household.
In the play's dramatic structure, Jessica is a
minor but pivotal role. Her actions motivate
Shylock's vengeful insistence on his "pound
of flesh" from Antonio; her relationships
with Shylock serves as a mirror and contrast
to Portia's with her father; her conversion
to Christianity is the end of Shylock's line's
adherence to the Jewish faith.
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