Act 2 scene 9

• my worthless self


  Portia – appearance and reality
• By the fool multitude that choose by show


  Arragon – appears wise
• The portrait of a blinking idiot


  Arragon - ironic, comedy
• How much unlike art thou to Portia! How much unlike my hopes and my deservings.


  Arragon - repetition, status of women
• With one fool’s head I came to woo,

  But I go away with two.


  Arragon - rhyming couplets
• Bassanio, Lord Love, if thy will it be!


  Nerissa - exclamatory sentence