ACT 2 Scene 6,7,8,9

Act Two Scene Six

1. How does Launcelot manage to tell Jessica that Lorenzo will be there that evening?
2. What does Jessica throw down to Lorenzo?
3. Why is Antonio looking for Gratiano?
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1. Lorenzo got a note from Launcelot which gave him the time and place to be.

2. Jessica throws down a casket/box

3.  Antonio was looking for Gratiano to tell him that there was no masquerade & due to the wind blowing right Bassanio is going aboard on the ship to set sail.
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Act Two Scene Seven

1. Which Casket does the Prince of Morocco think is worthy to contain Portia's portrait. Use evidence of the text to justify your answer.
2. How is Portia feeling in A2S7 -at the beginning, -while the prince is making his choice, at the end
3. What was Portia's father trying to achieve by the use of the caskets? Does this seem to be working?
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1. Prince Morocco thinks the gold one is worthy to have Portia's portrait. "He who chooses me will get what many men want.” That’s Portia! The whole world wants her. They come from the four corners of the earth to kiss this shrine and see this living, breathing saint. Princes travel across deserts and the vast wilderness of Arabia to come see the beautiful Portia. The wide ocean doesn’t prevent them from coming to see her—they travel across it as if it were a little stream." Morocco thinks Portia's photo would be in the Gold casket because Morocco thinks it would be a sin for her photo to be in a poor man's box full of lead, as to where he is wrong as it is in the lead.
2. Portia is feeling rather annoyed at the start as she doesn't want to marry the prince also because she has no choice but to marry him if he gets it right, and she's feeling relieved at the end that he got it wrong because she doesn't have to marry him, and he loses everything because of a single mistake

3. To see who is worthy of Portia, and is not really working as Portia doesn't like any of the men and his kind of annoyed
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Act Two Scene Eight

1. What double disaster had struck Shylock?
2. Where did Shylock think Lorenzo and Jessica might be
3. How did Bassanio and Antonio part?
4. What is the first suggestion of trouble for Antonio? Find a quote that tells you this.
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1. First Disaster is that his daughter ran away with a Christian, the second disaster is that she ran away with his ducats and jewels

2. Shylock thought that Lorenzo and his daughter was on Bassanios ship as he got a judge to search his ship but were too late as the ship had already set sailed. as then when they got there the duke learned that Lorenzo and his lover Jessica were together in gondola

3. They parted on a boat???

4. That a ship in Venetian has sunk while Salario hopes and prays that it's not one of Antonios ships
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Act Two Scene Nine

1. What is the purpose of the rhymes in the caskets
2. Why does the prince of Arragon discard the golden caskets? What does his interpretation of the inscription tell us about this character?
3. What is Portia's reaction to Bassanio's arrival?
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1. To make fun of the suitors

2. because he doesn't want to be like the people who only look at people on the outside and not the inside so he discarded it so he wouldn't be involved in the crude population. This tells us that he looks for personality and not just their beauty

3.  She doesn't want to know because she thinks that its one of Nerissa relatives.