Characters
Which character converted to Christianity and got married at the end of the play?
Jessica
How did Portia choose a husband?
Casket game
A roman character known for stabbing herself with a dagger to show her loyalty to her husband Brutus.
Portia
"He was one to call me usurer: let him look to his bond"
Bond: Relationship vs. Contract
The quality of this is twice blessed! It blesses the one who gives and the one who takes.
Mercy
"fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer that a..."
Shylock
Why did Bassanio visit Antonio in Act 1, scene 1?
Bassanio wanted to borrow money
Tell me where is fancy bred,
In the heart or in the head
How begot, how nourished
reply, reply
Lead casket
Solanio, Salerino, Salerio
Salary; men concerned with money. (Antonio's or Shylock's)
When the Price of Morocco opens this casket, he read the famous lines...
This theme is true for those who pursue wealth.
All that glisters is not gold
"Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at my elbow and tempts me..."
Lancelot
"Oh my daughter, Oh my ducats" (2.8)
What prompts Shylock to say this?
Jessica ran away and Tubal says she traded his ring for a monkey
A biblical figure who has different versions in Judaism and Christianity. He is known for being "in the lions den" and surviving...
Daniel
Portia must win the casket game due to her late father's will. (Double)
Casket and Will
This this is shown in the interactions between Christians and Jewish people during the era the play was set
Prejudice/Anti-Semitism
"And speak between the change of man and boy with a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps into a manly stride, and speak of frays like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies...a thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, which I will practise"
Portia (3.4.60-78)
Whose ships crash and sink in the play?
Antonio's
If I live to be as old a Sibylla, I will die as chaste as this goddess. They say this goddess has a twin brother named Apollo.
Diana
"One half of me is yours, the other half yours, mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, and so all yours. O, these naughty times"
Naughty: wicked or nothing
What is the significance of rings in the play? Which characters are associated with rings?
Jessica trades father's ring for a monkey (alludes to trading Jewish background away).
Bassanio gives ring to Balthasar, love is more important
Gratiano gives ring to clerk, love is more important
Ring represents bond
Which character is the clown?
Lancelot Gobbo
What does the Duke say about Shylock's punishment?
Half the wealth is Antonio's the other half falls upon the state of Venice
"Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair as any comer I have look'd on yet for my affection"
Portia talks to the Prince of Morocco, FAIR
How about getting a surgeon to help clog the wounds from bleeding out,
"I can't find that in the bond"
How about you do it for _____ this theme? (Hint starts with a "c")
Charity