Act II, Scene III
Extract I
Jessica:
I am sorry thou wilt
leave my ………see me in talk with thee.
11. Give reasons for Launcelot’s leaving
Jessica’s house.
Launcelot
left Jessica’s house since her father Shylock was a miserly Jew and is stay as
his servant has half-famished him. He
felt that any further stay with him would make him like the Jew. Besides,
Bassanio has accepted him in his service and Launcelot feels that Bassanio is a
better master.
22. Give the meaning of:
Our
house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
Didst
rob it of some taste of tediousness.
In
the above lines, Jessica says that her house is hell because of her father’s
avarice. Launcelot with his jolly nature
and with his antics and nonsensical capering
has relieved it of much boredom and dullness.
33. How does Jessica show in words and
action that she liked Launcelot’s presence in her house?
Jessica
shows in words and actions that she liked Launcelot’s presence in the house. He
calls him a merry devil and thanks him for reducing the boredom and dullness in
her house. She offers him a ducat too.
44. What errand does Jessica give to
Launcelot? What precautions does she ask him to take while doing the errand?
Jessica
gives to Launcelot the errand of delivering a letter to Lorenzo at supper in
Bassanio’s house that night. She advises him to deliver the letter to Lorenzo
secretly.
55. How does Jessica show herself as a
scheming but prudent young lady? In what
way is her character different from that of Portia?
Jessica
shows herself as a scheming lady when she plans to elope with a Christian boy,
Lorenzo without the knowledge of her father.
She proves herself to be prudent when she instructs Launcelot to deliver
her letter to Lorenzo at Bassanio’s party secretly. Her character is entirely
different from that of Portia. While Portia obeys her deceased father’s will to
marry the one who wins the lottery of caskets, Jessica betrays her father and
religion to marry Lorenzo.
Extract
II
Launcelot:
1. How
does Launcelot bid farewell to Jessica? In this context, what are your feelings
for Launcelot, Jessica and Shylock?
Launcelot bids farewell to Jessica
calling her ‘most beautiful pagan’ and later ‘most sweet Jew’. He says that
tears prevent his tongue from uttering his feelings. We feel happy for
Launcelot and Jessica. Launcelot is leaving his miserly master and is
undertaking Bassanio’s service where he will be happier. Jessica too
will soon escape from the ‘hell’ and marry Lorenzo. We feel sorry for Shylock
as he still obstinate, miserly and with evil intentions. Further, he shall lose
his daughter as well as money.
2. Why
does Jessica regret being the daughter of Shylock? What is the ‘heinous sin’
referred to in the extract? Is it really a sin? Give reasons to justify your
answer.
Jessica regrets being the daughter of
Shylock due to his behaviour, his being a bad father to her and for making her
home ‘hell’. Jessica describes her
feeling of being ashamed for being her father’s daughter as a heinous sin. It is
not really a sin because even if she is Shylock’s daughter by birth, she does
not actually detest her father but detests his miserliness and tyrannical
nature.
3. Give
the meaning of :
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners.
The above lines mean that although I am
his daughter by birth, I don’t have his habits.
4. Which
promise has Lorenzo to keep? Describe the strife that Jessica is going to end.
Lorenzo has to keep the promise of
eloping with Jessica that night. Jessica will end the struggle between her
desire to marry Lorenzo and her duty to her father, Shylock.
5. Explain
Jessica’s relationship with her father which is shown in the scene.
Jessica is a lively young girl who rebels against
the oppression of her father and the joylessness of her life at home. She calls her home ‘hell’. She cannot get
along with her father. She detests her father’s miserliness and tyrannical
nature. She affirms that though she is Shylock’s daughter by birth, she does
not share his disposition. Besides, she is influenced by the Venetians around
her to form a different attitude to life than her father’s. she is ready to
leave her father and elope with Lorenzo, a Christian.
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