This document summarizes a scene from The Merchant of Venice. It discusses:
1) Jessica plans to elope with Lorenzo secretly by having Launcelot deliver a letter to Lorenzo at Bassanio's party. She will disguise herself as a boy to help facilitate their elopement.
2) Launcelot bids farewell to Jessica and agrees to help with her plan. Jessica regrets being her father Shylock's daughter due to his miserly behavior.
3) Lorenzo receives Jessica's letter and agrees to elope with her that night as planned, hoping no misfortune will come to Jessica for being Shylock's daughter.
This document summarizes a scene from The Merchant of Venice. It discusses:
1) Jessica plans to elope with Lorenzo secretly by having Launcelot deliver a letter to Lorenzo at Bassanio's party. She will disguise herself as a boy to help facilitate their elopement.
2) Launcelot bids farewell to Jessica and agrees to help with her plan. Jessica regrets being her father Shylock's daughter due to his miserly behavior.
3) Lorenzo receives Jessica's letter and agrees to elope with her that night as planned, hoping no misfortune will come to Jessica for being Shylock's daughter.
This document summarizes a scene from The Merchant of Venice. It discusses:
1) Jessica plans to elope with Lorenzo secretly by having Launcelot deliver a letter to Lorenzo at Bassanio's party. She will disguise herself as a boy to help facilitate their elopement.
2) Launcelot bids farewell to Jessica and agrees to help with her plan. Jessica regrets being her father Shylock's daughter due to his miserly behavior.
3) Lorenzo receives Jessica's letter and agrees to elope with her that night as planned, hoping no misfortune will come to Jessica for being Shylock's daughter.
This document summarizes a scene from The Merchant of Venice. It discusses:
1) Jessica plans to elope with Lorenzo secretly by having Launcelot deliver a letter to Lorenzo at Bassanio's party. She will disguise herself as a boy to help facilitate their elopement.
2) Launcelot bids farewell to Jessica and agrees to help with her plan. Jessica regrets being her father Shylock's daughter due to his miserly behavior.
3) Lorenzo receives Jessica's letter and agrees to elope with her that night as planned, hoping no misfortune will come to Jessica for being Shylock's daughter.
(v) Jessica shows herself as a scheminglady when she plans to elope
with a Christian boy, Lorenzo without the knowledge of her father disguise themselves and elope. They were not fully prepared for She proves herself to be prudent when she instructs Launcelot the disguise because they had not arranged for young boys to act to deliver her letter to Lorenzoat Bassanio'sparty secretly. Her as torch-bearers. character is entirely different from that of Portia. While Portia obeys her deceased fathers will to marry the one who wins the lottery of (ii) Jessica, disguised as a boy, is supposed to be the torch-bearer. The caskets, Jessica betrays her father and religion to marry Lorenzo. actual purpose of having a torch-bearer in the scene is to facilitate 2. (i) Launcelot bids farewell to Jessica by calling her 'most beautiful the elopement of Jessica with Lorenzo. pagan' and later 'most sweet Jew'. He says that tears prevent his (iii) Bassanio is giving the dinner party. Launcelot invites Shylock for tongue from uttering his feelings. We feel happy for Launcelot and the dinner party. Jessica. Launcelotis leaving his miserly master and is undertaking (iv) dinner party facilitates the elopement of Jessica with Lorenzo. Bassanio's service where he will be happier. Jessica too will soon Jessica is free to leave her house as her father is away at Bassanio's escape from the 'hell' and marry Lorenzo.We feel sorry for Shylock dinner party. Lorenzo and his friends organise a masquerade for as he is still obstinate, miserly and with evil intentions. Further, he Bassanio's dinner party. Jessica joins them as a torch-bearer dressed shall lose his daughter as well as money. as a boy and elopes with Lorenzo. (ii) Jessica regrets being the daughter of Shylock due to his behaviour, (v) Launcelot brings the letter of Jessica. It is an important confidential his being a bad father to her and for making her home 'hell.' letter as it contained Jessica's plan to elope With Lorenzo. On Jessica describes her feelings of being ashamed at being her fathers receiving the letter Lorenzo guesses whose letter it is after Icoking daughter as a 'heinous sin'. It is not really a sin because even if at the handwriting. He declares that the handwriting is tart•uharto she is Shylock's daughter by birth, she does not actually detest her him and the letter is written by a lovely, fair and txauttful hand. father but detests his miserliness and tyrannicalnature. 2. (i) Jessica informs Lorenzo about the arrangements she had made to (iii) The given lines mean that although I am his daughter by birth, I fathers' house With money and elope with him She will leave her don't have his habits. jewellcry, disguised in the uniform of a page-boy go to heaven only (iv) Jessica is a lively young girl who rebels against the oppression of her (ii) According to Lorenzo. the Jew, Shylock could conclude that father and the joylessness of her life at home. She calls her home, because of his sweet and gentle daughter We can that it at all 'hell'. She detests her fathers miserliness and tyrannical nature. She Lorenzo has a high opinion of 'essica sin«• ptavs that Shylock ever gcu•sto heaven it Willbe becauq• affirms that though she is Shylock's daughter by birth, she does not of her; Ite share his disposition. She is ready to leave her father and elope with for being Shvl€x•k'•.daughter no misfortune ever comes to her Lorenzo, a Christian. happe•tvstv (iii) Lorenzo wishes that no misfortune ever has no Stearnot sin tn (v) Lorenzo has to keep the promise of eloping with Jessica that night. the daughter of a non-tx•lievtng Jew She Jessica will end the strife between her desire to marry Lorenzx» unless her birth is regarded as a stn. and her duty to her father, Shylockby eloping with Lorenzo and an eurnpk• oi marrying him. (iv) Referenceto Shylock as a •iatthle•s Chnstt.ans discnminauon hinted at in the extract. faithless Jews won't go to tu•aven ACT 11Scene 4 (v) An atmosphere of activity and pte•€xxupatno Activities include preparatnuxs iot ttu• masquerade regarding tiu• and part•€ this
party a. a tot CONTEXT QUESTIONS the scene E'.vn ShyLos-Iis inured to t tn this scene ile delivers tot 1. (i) Lorenzo and his friends plan to disguise themselves at dinner time Loren10's reply to Ile because they were organising a masquerade for Bassanio's dinner on Bassamo•s ix•hali. party and that would give them an opportunity to wear masks,
