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Merchant of Venice
Key quotes from the play
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antonio's opening line in the play | In sooth I know not why I am so sad |
| How Bassanio first describes Portia | In Belmont is a lady richly left and she is fair |
| Antonio advises Bassanio to look for a loan using his name as guarantor | Try what my credit can in Venice do |
| Portia complains that she cannot marry who she would like as she is constrained by her father's will | I may neither chose who I would not refuse who I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father |
| Shylock's motivation for giving Antonio a loan | If I can him once upon the hip, it will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him |
| details of the forfeit within the bond | let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh |
| Bassanio's comment after the bond is signed | I like not fair terms and a villain's mind |
| The Prince of Morocco's opening lines | Mislike me not for my complexion |
| Launcelot's view of Shylock | the Jew my master...is a kind of devil |
| Bassanio fears Gratiano's personality | Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice |
| Jessica's comment about living with Shylock | Our house is hell |
| Shylock reluctantly goes to dinner with the Christians and says | I'll go in hate |
| Shylock's command to Jessica in his absence | Lock up my doors |
| The inscription on the gold casket | Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire |
| The inscription on the silver casket | who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves |
| The inscription on the lead casket | who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath |
| What is inside the gold casket | a skull with a scroll "All that glisters is not gold/Gilded tombs do worms infold." |
| Portia's racist response when the Prince of Morocco leaves | A gentle riddance..let all of his complexion choose me so |
| Shylock's calls after his discovery that Portia has eloped | O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christain!" |
| What is inside the silver casket | The portrait of a blinking idiot "There be fools alive iwis silver'd o'er and so was this" |
| An unconfirmed rumour of a ship wreck | it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the Narrow Seas |
| Salarino mocks Shylock's anguish over his daughter's elopement | I for my part knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal |
| Salarino's asks Shylock what he will do with Antonio's pound of flesh if he takes it? | To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge |
| Famous Jew speech pleading for equality | hath not a jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? |
| Same speech about how both sets of people react to being wronged | If you poison us do we not die? and if you wrong us shall we not revenge? |
| At the end of Shylock's monologue, he promises to get the ultimate revenge on all Christains | The villainy you teach me I will execute but I will better the instruction |
| Shylock wishes his daughter were dead and his jewels returned to hi after he hears about her spending spree | I would my daughter were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear |
| Tubal tells Shylock that his daughter traded Shylock's wedding ring for a monkey | One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey |
| Shylock says he will cut out Antonio's heart if he cannot pay back the bond | I will have the heart of him if he forfeit |
| What does Bassanio find in the lead casket? | A portrait of Portia with a scroll "You that choose not by the view/chance as fair and choose true." |
| Portia's warning to Bassanio when she gives him his wedding ring | I give them with this ring , which when you part from, lose or give away/ Let it presage the ruin of your love |
| Gratianio confesses to falling in love with Nerissa to Bassanio | You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid |
| Antonio pleads for mercy from the forfeit of the bond. Shylock responds in a spiteful manner | ..since I am a dog, beware my fangs |
| Antonio explains that the Duke must enact the terms of the bond- the forfeit or else law and order will break down in Venice | The Duke cannot deny the course of law/..if it be denied/will much impeach the justice of the state |
| The Duke shows bias against Shylock before the trial begins by confiding the following in Antonio | A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch |
| Bassanio says that he would give up his wife to save Antonio at this point from death at the hands of Shylock. It is dramatic irony as Portia can hear him as she is disguised as a lawyer | But life itself, my wife, and all the world/ are not with me esteemed above thy life |
| Portia's words which stop Shylock from cutting Antonio | Tarry a little..This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood |
| The law that Portia raises to turn the tables on Shylock | If it be proved against an alien..he seek the life of an citizen..then the offender's life lies a the mercy of the Duke. |
| What Antonio says to take away Shylock's identity | He presently become a christian and he record a gift of all he dies possessed unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter. |
| Shylock's response to the court's judgement | Give me leave to go from hence. I am not well |
| Bassanio praises the lawyer for saving Antonio and asks what he can give to the lawyer(Portia in disguise) | Take some remembrance of us as a tribute |
| Portia asks Bassanio for his wedding ring | I'll have this ring from you |
| Bassanio immediately regrets giving his ring away when he discovers how upset Nerissa becomes with Gratianio for giving his ring away | I were best to cut my left hand off |
| Portia says that she will as generous as Bassanio has been when he gave her ring away by giving her body away to the same lawyer | I'll become as liberal as you/ I'll not deny him anything I have/ not my body nor my husband's bed |
| Portia reveals that they were the disguised lawyer and clerk in the court | Portia was the doctor, Nerissa there her clerk |
| Portia gives Antonio a letter revealing that his ships have safely arrived home to port | Unseal this letter. there you shall find that three of your argosies are richly come to harbour |
| Nerissa reveals Shylock's will, stating that Jessica and Lorenzo will inherit his money | From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift/ after his death of all he dies possessed of |
| Rhyming couplet said by Gratianio to end the play | Well, while I'll live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring |
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Ms G
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