Portia Flashcards
What quote from Portia conforms to the role of women in Elizabethan England as Portia gives everything she owns to Bassanio?
“I was the Lord of this fair mansion”
What does Portia say to Bassanio to show that she is happy to let him take ownership of her?
“One half of me is yours, the other hald is yours”
What does Portia say to show that her life is controlled by her dead father?
“So is the will of a living daughter curbed by the sill of a dead father”
What does Portia mean by “I will die as chaste as Diana unless I be obtained by the manner of ky father’s will”?
I will die a virgin unless I get controlled by my fathers will - (Diana is the godess of single women)
What is the significance of the quote: “When we are accounted like young men”?
It shows that Portia (as a women in Elizabethan times) is coming up with the plans to save Antonio. It is very significant as Shakespeare has shown here that women are powerful characters that should be valued more in society
How does Portia open scene of act one and what does in symbalize?
“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world” - it is very simular to the war that Antonio opened scene one implying that they are both sad as they are missing a special person in their lives (Bassanio).
What quotes in act 3, scene 2 show that Portia feels affection for Bassanio?
- “Pause a day or two before you hazard, for in choosing wrong I lose your company”
- “Is an unlesson’d girl…but she may learn”
- “Her lord, her governor, her king”
What’s the significance of the quote: “First go with me to church, and call me wife, and then away to Venice to your friend”?
It shows that Portia wants to be married to Bassanio before he goes to save Antonio because Portia knows that Antonio loves Bassanio too
What is significant about the quote: “when we are both accountred like young men I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two”?
It shows that although Portio is diguising herself as a man, she still wants to look good for Bassanio.
How does Portia refer to Shylock in court?
“The Jew”
What does Portia say in act 4, scene 1 to make Shylock feel optamistic about his bond going through?
- “Yet in such rule that the Venetian law cannot impugn you as you do proceed”
- “There is no power in Venice can alter a decree established”
- “Lawfully by this the Jew may claim a pound of flesh”
- “You must prepare your bosom for his knife”
- “A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine”
What does Portia say to discredit the bond and make Shylock guilty?
- “This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood”
- “If thou dost shed one drop of Christian blood, thy lands and good are by the law of the Venice confiscate unto the state of Venice”
- “He shall have nothing but the penalty”
- “Beg mercy of the duke”
What does Portia (as a man) want her reward to be for saving Antonio?
“I’ll take the ring from you”
How is Portia presented as a powerful character in act 4, scene 1?
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How does Portia play with Bassanio’s conscience before he confesses to giving away the ring in act 5, scene 1?
“I gave my love a ring, and made him swear never to part with it, and here he stands”
