why do some people, according to gratiano,try to look serious
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Explanation:
There are sort of a men whose visages
There are sort of a men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress d in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bar
In whose company is Gratiano? What has provoked him to give a long lecture:
Why do some people, according to Gratiano, try to look serious?
Whom is Gratiano criticizing indirectly?
Later in the scene Gratiano says he will continue his speech. When are the
i.
IV.
friends meeting again? How does the meeting become important?
V. What impression does Gratiano leave on Antionio and his friends? Why
does he leave abruptly?There are sort of a men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress d in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bar
In whose company is Gratiano? What has provoked him to give a long lecture:
Why do some people, according to Gratiano, try to look serious?
Whom is Gratiano criticizing indirectly?
Later in the scene Gratiano says he will continue his speech. When are the
i.
IV.
friends meeting again? How does the meeting become important?
V. What impression does Gratiano leave on Antionio and his friends? Why
does he leave abruptly?
Answer:
Why do some people, according to
(iii) Whom is Gratiano criticizing indirectly here
(iv) Later in the scene, Gratiano says he will continue his speech. When are the friends meeting again?
Name the friends those who would be present that time.
(v) What opinion do you form about Gratiano as a reader?
Question 2.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Portia:
If to do were as easy as
Good to do, chapels had been churches and poor
Men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good
Divine that follows his own instructions: I can
Easier teach twenty what were good to be done,
Than be one of the twenty to follow min
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a willful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress’d in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say, ‘I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!’
What provokes him to speak the above lines?
Why do some people, according to Gratiano, try to look serious?