Merchant of Venice. - Repositories
Merchant of Venice. - Repositories Merchant of Venice. - Repositories
162 NOTES [ACT HI. il. 1-129. Judging from this scene, what do you think is the age of Shylock ? Has he travelled during his lifetime ? What is the bitterest thing that Shylock says in this scene ? Does he show any love for his daughter ? Any tenderness toward any one else ? Trace the report of Antonio's losses from the first hint anywhere in the play of the disaster, up to the time when the report becomes confirmed. Why does Tubal tell his story in the way that he does ? Why is this an especially unfortunate time for the report to reach the ears of Shylock ? What purpose do we now feel that Shylock has against Antonio ? In the beginning of this scene what makes us feel that only a short time has elapsed since the end of Act II. ? Later in the scene what lines show definitely just how much time has elapsed since the end of Act I. ? What is the one most important point of the story learned from this scene ? SCENE II 1. 2. choosing wrong. That is, your choosing wrong. How is the construction unrhetorical ? *. 4. it is not love. Is this quite true ? i. 6. quality. Manner. 1. 7. understand me. What difference would it make whether or not Bassanio understood Portia, so long as the winning of her hand depended solely on the choice of the right casket ? L 9. month. he might tarry ? When she first spoke, how long did she wish
SCENE 2.] NOTES 163 I. 11> am then forsworn. Present tense for the future, 1. 14. Beshrew. See IL, vi., 52. Remember that the word ts used here in a very gentle — nay, even tender—way. 1. 15. o'erlook^d. Bewitched, cast a spell upon. 1. 20. Prove it so. If it prove so. Explain fully what she means by this, 1. 21. fortune go to helL What crime would fortune have committed ? 1. 22. peize. (Pronounced piz.) Retard, How long, probably, had Bassanio been at Belmont ? 1. 27. treason. Referring to the practice of torturing a confession out of traitors on the rack. Is Portia in earnest, or in sport ? 1. 28. What disturbs Bassanio's peace of mind in the same way that treason disturbs the peace of a state ? 1. 30. life. Living together, harmony. 1. 36. sum of my confession. All I have to confess. 1. 44. swan-like end. Alluding to the old belief that the swan never sang until just at death, when it breathed out its life in one beautiful strain of music. 1. 47. watery death-bed. Is not this a conceit, that is, a farfetched, fanciful comparison ? What other lover in the play is made to speak in this same extravagant manner, and where ? 1.52. bridegroom's ear. "An allusion to the custom of playing music under the windows of the bridegroom's bedroom on the morning of his marriage." (Halliwell.)
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162 NOTES [ACT HI.<br />
il. 1-129. Judging from this scene, what do you think is the<br />
age <strong>of</strong> Shylock ? Has he travelled during his lifetime ? What<br />
is the bitterest thing that Shylock says in this scene ? Does he<br />
show any love for his daughter ? Any tenderness toward any<br />
one else ? Trace the report <strong>of</strong> Antonio's losses from the first<br />
hint anywhere in the play <strong>of</strong> the disaster, up to the time when<br />
the report becomes confirmed. Why does Tubal tell his story<br />
in the way that he does ? Why is this an especially unfortunate<br />
time for the report to reach the ears <strong>of</strong> Shylock ? What<br />
purpose do we now feel that Shylock has against Antonio ?<br />
In the beginning <strong>of</strong> this scene what makes us feel that only a<br />
short time has elapsed since the end <strong>of</strong> Act II. ? Later in the<br />
scene what lines show definitely just how much time has elapsed<br />
since the end <strong>of</strong> Act I. ? What is the one most important<br />
point <strong>of</strong> the story learned from this scene ?<br />
SCENE II<br />
1. 2. choosing wrong. That is, your choosing wrong. How<br />
is the construction unrhetorical ?<br />
*. 4. it is not love. Is this quite true ?<br />
i. 6. quality. Manner.<br />
1. 7. understand me. What difference would it make<br />
whether or not Bassanio understood Portia, so long as the<br />
winning <strong>of</strong> her hand depended solely on the choice <strong>of</strong> the right<br />
casket ?<br />
L 9. month.<br />
he might tarry ?<br />
When she first spoke, how long did she wish
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