Merchant of Venice

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Merchant of Venice

• Act II Introductions and Questions

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Scene 1 Meet the Prince of Morocco
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Or Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Consider

• What characteristic does the Prince want Portia
  to ignore?
• What heroic feats does the Prince insist he can
  accomplish?
• What is the Princes penalty if he chooses the
  wrong casket?

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Scene 2, Lines 1-70

• Meet Lancelot, Shylocks servant who imagines
  himself the hero of a morality play, caught
  between the fiend and his conscience

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Lancelot is the master of malapropisms

• Using the wrong word in place of a word that
  sounds similar
• I resemble that remark
• Lancelot says, The Jew is the devil
  incarnation. What does he mean?
• He also says, I will try confusions with him
  (his father) when he means conclusions or
  experiements.
• Lancelots father, Gobbo, who is half-blind or
  sandblind also uses malapropisms.

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Scene 2, Lines 71-end

• More malapropisms
• He hath a great infection instead of affection
• Shall fructify unto you insead of notify
• This is the very defect rather than effect
• Other Terms
• Gramercy means thank you
• Scarce cater-cousins means hardly good friends.
• Notice how Lancelot and Gobbo compete to tell the
  same story

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Lancelot and Gobbo
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Scenes 3 and 4

• Meet Shylocks daughter, Jessica
• Whom does she love?
• Why does she want to run away from home?
• Gratiano, Lorenzo, Salarino, and Solano plan to
  attend a Masque (entertainment with music,
  disguises, dancing, torches, etc.) Remember
  Romeo and Juliet?

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Masque

• Notice how masks reveal personality

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Scene 5 Home Alone

• While the cats away (Shylock), the mice (Jessica
  and Lorenzo) will play
• Notice Shylocks dream

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Scene 6

• Jessica elopes with Lorenzo after giving him her
  fathers treasure
• This scene includes some romantic lines, so pay
  attention!
• Notice the convention Jessica is disguised as a
  boy!

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Scene 7

• The Prince of Morocco will chose a casket!
• Notice the inscription on each one.
• Which one does the Prince choose?

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Famous quotation

• All that glisters is not gold. How have we
  changed the wording of this famous quotation?
  What does it mean?