Act 3 scene 2

• I pray you tarry, pause a day or two


  Portia - iambic pentameter
• bred,

  head?

  nourishèd?


  Song - rhyme
• Here are severed lips

  Parted with sugar breath; so sweet a bar

  Should sunder such sweet friends.


  Bassanio - sibilance
• As doubtful whether what I see be true,

  Until confirmed, signed, ratified by you.

  Bassanio - rule of three
• an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised


  Portia - rule of three
• from her lord, her governor, her king.

  Portia - rule of three
• Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours

  Is now converted.


  Portia - iambic pentameter, absolute submission
• I give them with this ring,

  Which when you part from, lose, or give away,

  Let it presage the ruin of your love


  Portia - rule of three
• But when this ring

  Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence


  Bassanio - hyperbole
• You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid.


  Gratiano- juxtaposition
• Lorenzo and his infidel!


  Gratiano - prejudice to Jessica
• Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither –


  Bassanio - just after Lorenzo, Jessica and Salerio enter, he ignores Jessica
• steals the colour from Bassanio‘s cheek


  Portia
• I am half yourself

  And I must freely have the half of anything

  That this same paper brings you.


  Portia
• I have engaged myself to a dear friend, Engaged my friend to his mere enemy, to feed my means.


  Bassanio - repetition, mirrors Shylock
• A creature that did bear the shape of man

  So keen and greedy to confound a man.


  Salerio - stereotype of Jews being greedy
• none can drive him from the envious plea

  Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.


  Salerio - rule of three
• He would rather have Antonio‘s flesh Than twenty times the value of the sum


  Jessica - betrays her father
• If law, authority, and power deny not

  It will go hard with poor Antonio.


  Jessica - rule of three
• The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,

  The best conditioned and unwearied spirit


  Bassanio - listing
• What, no more? Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond.


  Portia - rhetorical question, immediate response, shows her wealth
• First go with me to church, and call me wife


  Portia - imperatives, takes control
• my ships have all miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very low


  Antonio’s letter - listing, alliteration