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Shylock and Jessica

Jessica's Freedom

Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfurt—the curse never fell upon our nation till now! I never felt it till now—Two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed at my foot and the ducats in her coffin!

Greed and Love

Greedy desires influences the choices of Bassanio and Shylock in The Merchant Of Venice and has consequences their love ones.

Bassanio's decision to marry his wife based on her wealth but has resulted in his wife's decision to test him and lose faith in him.

Shylock's decision to place wealth over his daughter has left him with no one other than himself and the valuables he has left because his daughter

Bassanio and Portia

The lovers relationship

  • loves to live the rich life but doesn't have the funds to support it
  • has a plan to get out of it by marrying a rich lady
  • Does not have great love for Portia and qualities

Bassanio's love

“In Belmont is a lady richly left, And she is fair and—fairer than that word—...had I but the means To hold a rival place with one of them, I have a mind presages me such thrift That I should questionless be fortunate!”

Jessica's Love

  • Built on his need for money
  • spends more than he makes

The Father-Daughter Love

Portia's love

Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,

I owe the most in money and in love,

And from your love I have a warranty

To unburden all my plots and purposes

How to get clear of all the debts I owe.

  • Portia dislikes each one of her suitors and plots ways to get out of marrying them
  • Bassanio is the only suitor she speaks fondly of.

Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,

Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.

But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee.

And Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see

Lorenzo, who is thy new master’s guest.

Give him this letter.

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me

To be ashamed to be my father’s child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood,

I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,

If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,

Become a Christian and thy loving wife.

Jessica-2.3

  • Jessica describes her father as "a merry devil" and shows how she is "ashamed" to be his daughter.
  • Jessica believes she is only connected to him by blood but "not to his manners" or personality e.g worth of money
  • She plans to run away and marry a Christian man to "end this strife"- to become the flesh and blood of Lorenzo

Shylock's Love

“I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise.”

Portia's Ring

  • Portia is smart, he shows this by testing Bassanio's love for her by giving him, her ring
  • Follows him to Antonio's trial dressed as a male lawyer
  • Bassanio gives the ring to the disguised Portia

“Set a deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do any thing Nerissa, ere i'll be married to a sponge.”

Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,

The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio.—

What, Jessica!—Thou shalt not gormandize

As thou hast done with me.—What, Jessica!—

And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out—

Why, Jessica, I say!

Jessica, my girl,

Look to my house. I am right loath to go.

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

For I did dream of money bags tonight.

-Shylock 2.5

  • Bassanio will not be mislead choosing the right casket.
  • Bassanio does have some commitment
  • yet still puts his wants before needs and easily gives into temptation.
  • shows lack of love through lack of commitment to his wife
  • Shylock is a greedy Jew, values money over anything else
  • Yells for her as if she is his servant rather than daughter

  • Doesn't have much interest in her and implies his ducats worth more than she is
  • he is telling her to guard the house showing she is to put saving his valuables over her life.

  • May be cause for Jessica being treated lower than she should and is her reason to hate her father
  • Portia has a puppy love for Bassanio
  • Portia sees his lack of trust in her husband by having the need to go out of her way to test it

“I give them with this ring, Which when you part from, lose, or give away, Let it presage the ruin of your love And be my vantage to exclaim on you.”

-Portia

“When this ring Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence. O, then be bold to say Bassanio’s dead!”

-Bassanio

Shylock shows little gratitude for his daughter when she runs away

His valuables and her betrayal seem more important than her disappearance.

"I would my daughter were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear!"

Describe how Greed is shown through relationships In Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice

Shylock doesn't even acknowledge what he may have done to deserve this.

Greed: An intense desire for something such as wealth, power or food

Greed is one of the major themes in the Merchant of Venice.

Wealth is shown through Bassanio and Shylock's relationships

This shows his greed is the most defined and worthy part of his life

(nothing else comes close to comparing to his worth of money.)

Because of his greed, Shylock is left with nothing. No family or friends or the person who should be worth the most, Jessica. Even a diamond is worth more than her life.

Shylock's greed and value of money effects his relationship with Jessica

Bassanio's relationship with Portia because of his desire to live a wealthy life and his weakness to give into temptation

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