Bassanio

• Selfish and extravagant initially wanting to marry Portia for wealth


  "How much I have disabled mine estate" 1.1

  "Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice" 2.2

  "Yet I have not seen so likely an ambassador of love" 2.6

  "The painter plays the spider...hearts of men" 3.2 (hyperbolic language)
• Youthful enthusiasm and growing love for Portia


  "The seeming truth which cunning times put on...and here choose I" 3.2

  "When I did first impart my love to you...my state was nothing" 3.2

  "Until confirmed, signed, ratified by you"