Important Minor Characters(Merchant Of Venice)

Question 1

Lorenzo

Answer 1

-bassanio’s friend who falls in love with Shylock’s daughter Jessica)

Question 2

Lancelot

Answer 2

-shylock’s comic servent who leaves shylocks service to serve bassanio)

Question 3

Gratiano

Answer 3

-Bassiano’s friend with a bawdy and clownish demeanour, accompanies bassiano to Belmont to court who then falls in love with Portia’s servant nerissa)

Question 4

Jessica

Answer 4

-Shylock’s daughter, who escapes her father’s house in order to merry Lorenzo, she converts to Christianity in order to further assimilate into the Christian society of Venice

Question 5

Nerissa

Answer 5

-Portia’s handmaid who falls in love with Gratiano, Bassanio’s friend.