Orpheus | Mythological musician who represents the power of music |
Portia dompares a “good deed in a naughty world” to | The light of a candle in the darkness |
Cressid | Betrayed Troilus when me moved to the Greek camp during the Trojan war |
Pyramus | Killed himself when thought the lion killed thisbe |
Dido | Queen of Carthage, loved Aenas,Nwade abandoned by Aenas |
Music of spheres | Created by planets and stars moving, can’t be heard by humans because of Adam and Eve |
The play ends with | Bassanio’s declaration of loyalty and fidelity to Portia |
Epistrophe at the end of Act 5 | Ring |
“The villainy you teach me I will execute” | Shylock |
“She is damned for it” | Shylock |
“O these naughty times/Put bars between owners and their rights” | Portia |
“O happy torment when my torturer/Doth teach me answers for deliverance” | Bassanio |
“There is no vice so simple but assumes/Some make of virtue on his outward parts” | Bassanio |
“Though for myself alone/ I would not be ambitious in my wish/ To wish myself much better, yet for you/ I would be trebled twenty times myself” | Portia |
“Never did I know/ A creature that did bear the shape of man” | Salerio |
” We shall ne’er win at that sport and stake down” | Gratiano |
“Since I am a dog beware my fangs” | Shylock |
“I have within my mind a thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks” | Portia |
“In sooth I know not why I am so sad” | Antonio |
“You have too much respect upon the world/ They lose it that do buy it with much care” | Gratiano |
“Why should a man who’s blood is warm within sit like his grandkids cut in alabaster” | Gratiano |
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing” | Bassanio |
“My purse, my person…” | Antonio |
“For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit..” | Nerissa |
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do..” | Portia |
“I can easier teach 20 what were good to be done that to be one of the 20 to follow mine own teaching” | Portia |
“God made him and therefore let him pass for a man” | Portia |
“Three thousand ducats well” | Shylock |
“I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him” | Shylock |
“The devil can cite scripture for his purpose” | Antonio |
“I do oppose my patience to his fury…” | Antonio |
“For affection masters oft passions, sways it to the mood…” | Shylock |
“Not only on thy sole but on thy soul..” | Gratiano |
“And earthly power doth then show likest God’s when mercy seasons justice” | Portia |
“To do a great right, do a little wrong” | Bassanio |
“There is no power in the tongue of man/ to alter me” | Shylock |
“These be the Christian husbands” | Shylock |
“Thou shalt have more justice than thou desirst” | Portia |
Who is the most gentle Christian to Shylock in the trial | Antonio |
“Let his deservings and my love withal/Be valued gainst your wife’s commandment” | Antonio |
“We’ll outface them and out swear them too” | Portia |
What does Shylock point out about the Christians to justify his own evil | Slavery |
“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that they themselves commit” | Jessica |
“Did I deserve no more than a fools head?” | Eragon |
“O these deliberate fools, when they do choose…” | Portia |
“All things that are /are with more spirit chased than enjoyed” | Gratiano |
“Fast bind, fast find…” | Shylock |
“My masters a very Jew..” | Lancelot |
Merchant of Venice study guide
July 29, 2019