Act+One

MOV Act 1 Analyzations Sam Morse pd. 6
 * Antonio:**
 * “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.**
 * An evil soul producing holy witness,**
 * is like a villain with a smiling cheek,**
 * A goodly apple rotten at the heart.” (1.3.96-99)**

Antonio implies that Shylock isn’t telling Bassanio and him the whole story and giving them selective details. He says that Shylock only uses the holy words of God when it is convenient for him. Otherwise fooling people in his own, unholy, ways.


 * Nerissa:**
 * “...whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love. But what warmth is there in your affection towards any of these princely suitors that are already come?” (1.2.30-34)**

Nerissa is seeing both sides to the situation Portia is in. She says how Portia’s father was a good man and did what he thought was best for Portia by leaving behind the three chests, which is how Portia’s husband would be chosen, whichever suitor chose the right chest. However, Nerissa also states how Portia may not end up happy, because based on the plans of her father, she had no say in who she was going to marry.

Michelle Morrison pd. 6

Antonio(1.1.1) “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.”

I predict Antonio will soon learn why he is so sad. This is a little foreshadowing, telling us he is sad, but doesn’t know why. Many people who are depressed or sad sometimes do not know the reason for their sadness. I made the connection with this line to people who are depressed but do not realize why.

Portia(1.2.46-49) “He hears merry tales and smiles not. I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.”

This gives some insight into the kind of man Portia wants to marry. Not someone who is sad all the time, but to someone who is more joyous and happy. I think that this will play a part in the rest of the book. My connection to this line was that I also do not like people who are “Debby Downers” I would rather be around people who are happy and laugh a lot then people who are always serious and never happy.

Lindsy Crutchfield period 6

Lorenzo (1.1.106-107) "I must be one of these dumb wise men, for Gratiano never lets me speak."

I see Lorenzo not having a very good relationship with Gratiano, and it kind of makes me wonder why. Maybe there's some sort of rivalry between them or some sort of argument that went on. I'll be on the look out for that.

Gratiano (1.1.109-110) "Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue."

This sort of proves that there was an argument or something that went on. Or maybe that he is just saying that Lorenzo is younger than Gratiano and therefore does not know what he is talking about most of the time because the line before that states "Well, keep me company but two years more." That might mean that he is older than Lorenzo and knows more.

Sam Cummings Period Six

Salerio (1.1.8-14) "Your mind is tossing on the ocean, there where your argosies with portly sail, like signors and rich burghers on the flood, or as it were the pageants of the sea, do overpeer the petty traffickers that curtsy to them, do them reverence, as they fly by them with their woven wings."

The way this starts off, "your mind is tossing on the ocean," is seems like Antonio cannot make up his mind; he is restless about his sadness that he unsure of why he has it. He could be sad for many reasons, maybe it is because he is nervous for a friend who works on a ship, and that friend needs some money, and Antonio is anxious about it.

Leonardo (2.2.164) "My best endeavor shall be done herein."

He is saying that he will do his best to get the document for his master, Bassanio.


 * Cassidy Bigos**


 * Gratiano (1.1, 1, 83-85)**


 * Why should a man whose blood is warm within**
 * Sit like grandshire cut in alabaster?**
 * Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice.**


 * Gratiano is saying that someone full of energy should not sit in the idleness of the time and do nothing comparing boredom to a statue on a mausoleum cut of fine stone such as alabaster to Antonio. You should be active Gratiano says to Lorenzo, being active will made you healthy and avoid illness, such as jaundice which turns your skin yelloe.**


 * Portia (1.2,1, 12-14)**


 * “If to do were as easy as to know what what were**
 * good to do, chapels had been churches and poor**
 * men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”**


 * Portia is talking about how her father is dead and now and it is up to a random suitor to change her life forever and marry her. Someone who she may not know at all and she cannot protest the men because it is in her dead fathers will that whoever picks the right chest will automatically marry her. Portia is saying that she wishes her life was easier so she could pick her own suitor and not have to listen to her fathers will even though he is dead. Overall her comparison shown in this passage is saying how her life would have been so different if she was not royalty like comparing a poor mans cottage to a princes palace.**

Kate Bonney Portia (1.2. 22-26) "Oh, me, the word "choose"! I may neither choose who I would nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?"

Portia's father's will is written so that Portia must marry whoever chooses the right chest of either lead, gold, or silver. He designed it so that Portia might marry a worthy man but Portia views the situation as terrible and she thinks that she will be stuck with a horrible man. In this quote Portia is saying that she can't choose who she would like to marry or choose who she wouldn't like to marry, she is forced to carry through what her father wanted.

Bassanio (1.1. 103-134) "To you, Antonio, I owe the most, in money and in love, and from your love I have a warranty to unburden all my plots and purposes how to get a clear of all the debts I owe."

Bassanio is declaring to Antonio that he is a good friend and Bassanio owes him much because of it. It seems like Antonio is always there for Bassanio and helps him often which is probably why Bassanio asks him for money later on. Antonio offers his money, himself, and anything he can do to help Bassanio. I hope that Bassanio doesn't forget about Antonio when he tries to woo Portia.


 * Ryanne Dailey **
 * pd. 6 **

“I owe you much, and, like a willful youth, that which I owe is lost; but if you please to shoot another arrow that self way which you did shoot the first.”
 * Bassanio(1.1.146-149): **

Bassanio is asking Antonio for another loan, so that he can travel to meet Portia. He says that he is like a child, and even though he owes Antonio lots of money, he can’t pay it now. He asks Antonio to loan him some more money, but is warning that Antonio may not get the money back. By “self way” he means the same place that the money went the first time. The arrow represents the money. If it were me, I would not want to ask for more money from Antonio until I had paid back the money I borrowed earlier. I think that at some point in the play Antonio is going to be upset with Bassanio because he never pays the loans back, and Antonio doesn’t have any more money.

“Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea; neither have I money or commodity to raise a present sum. Therefore go forth. Try what my credit can in Venice do.”
 * Antonio(1.1.178-180): **

Antonio is responding to Bassanio asking for more money. Antonio says that he doesn’t have any money to give to Bassanio to impress Portia. All of his money and things he owns are at sea. He must own ships or something. The “present sum” is the money Bassanio wants as the loan. Antonio says that instead of giving Bassanio the loan, he should go to Venice and get money from people Antonio has connections to, who would have money to lend. He thinks that people will give Bassanio money because he knows Antonio. I don’t think this plan will work.

Mykala Emery <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">pd.6

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Portia (1.1 14-17) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Portia is basically saying that it is a lot easier to tell people what to do, to give them advice, than it is to set an example and follow your own advice.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Antonio: (1.3.95-100) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly rotten apple rotten at the heart. Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Antonio is saying that things can seem different than they actually are, like the Devil can use Scripture, or God’s words for his own, wrong, purposes. He’s also saying that even the most good or bad person can change their ways, or at least make it seem like it, they create a falsehood and fool people.


 * Stormi Henderson- **
 * Period 6 **
 * Shylock: **
 * "I would be friends with you and have your love, Forget the shames that you have stained me with, Supply your present wants, and take no doit Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me. This is kind I offer." Pg. 33 ( 137-140) **


 * What I think Shylock is saying is even though Antonio had done him wrong and shamed him, he is telling Antonio to forget all about that and to just basically start over and be friends. Shylock is trying to be the bigger person and he's trying to be kind and lend Antonio money and other things of value. **


 * 1.4.11 **
 * Antonio: “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness, is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart.” (1.3.96-99) **
 * Antonio implies that Shylock isn’t telling Bassanio and him the whole story and giving them selective details. He says that Shylock only uses the holy words of God when it is convenient for him. Otherwise fooling people in his own, unholy, ways. - I agree with what Sam is saying, I also think that Shylock only learns and knows the Scriptures to then purposely deceive them. He does not know it to a bid by it. **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Justin Chartier

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gratiano (1.1.108-110)

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Well, keep me company but two years more, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">tongue.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gratiano is saying if Lorenzo hangs around him for another two years, Lorenzo won’t know how his own voice sounds. Lorenzo has said that he must be one of the “not so wise men”, according to Gratiano, that never talks, because Gratiano doesn’t give him time to speak. Antonio tells Gratiano that he’ll start talking more because of his lecture and Gratiano says that is a good thing. Gratiano must be a very talkative person, because of how long his side of the conversation is. I don’t think many people like listening to Gratiano because after he exits, Bassanio says that he talks more nonsense than any other man in Venice.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Antonio (1.1.1)

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Antonio is apparently sad for a reason that he doesn’t know. He’s tired of it and so are Salarino and Solanio. He says that if he can’t figure out what’s making him depressed, he must not know himself well. Antonio tells Salarino and Solanio that he isn’t sad because of his ships or being in love. I agree with Michelle and I think that Antonio will soon find out the source of his sadness.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Travis Frost

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bassanio -1.1.146-149

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“I owe you much, and, like a willful youth, that which I owe is lost; but if you please to shoot another arrow that self way which you did shoot the first.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This quote reminds me of now a day situations. The bad economy is causing people to need to borrow money from either friends, family, or banks because of the lack of jobs. I think this going to cause problems later in the book because just like in real life, if you don’t pay off your loans you get into deeper trouble. I think that Antonio (who is is asking to borrow money from and has already borrowed money from in the past) will get mad at Bassanio because he won’t be able to pay off his debt.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Antonio - 1.1.1

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This quote states that Antonio is sad but for no apparent reason. He doesn’t know why he is sad. This reminds me of those days where you are down all day and just can’t seem to do anything to make yourself feel better. I think eventually some event will unfold to reveal why Antonio is sad and will make other people sad as well.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Antonio (1.1.1-7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">It wearies me, you say it wearies you; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What stuff ‘tis made of, whereof it is born, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I am to learn; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">And such a want-wit sadness makes of me <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">That I have much ado to know myself.”
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Jenn Smith pd.6: **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is saying that Antonio is sad and he doesn’t understand why. Everyone and even himself are sick of it, and he doesn’t know the solution. He doesn’t know what is making him depressed, and even though he is, he doesn’t know how to fix it, or how to deal with it. Neither does anyone else. He also states that he doesn’t know himself very well.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Portia (1.2.15-17) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“It is a good divine that <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">follow his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">what were good to be done than to be one of the <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Portia is saying that she can give great advice and people listen to her, but she cannot give herself the advice that she needs. She says that if she was to give 20 people advice on something, she couldn’t follow her own advice. She needs to rely on someone else to give her advice, or not receive any at all.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Brett Whittemore

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bassanio

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1.1:57-79 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Good signors both, when shall we laugh?"

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This quote reminds me of somebody who is mourning the loss of a loved one. They are wondering when they will be happy again and when they will find something that will bring joy to them and help relieve the pain of their loss. Almost everybody goes through this at least once in their lifetime, and I myself have.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1.1:146-149: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“I owe you much, and, like a willful youth, that which I owe is lost; but if you please to shoot another arrow that self way which you did shoot the first.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This quote reminds me of a friend who is borrowing money from another, and before he pays him back for the first loan, he asks for another. The friend loaning the money would have to trust his friend enough to loan him even more money before he paid him back for the first amount.

Austin Bernard

Nerissa <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.” I, ii, 6-9

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is referring to marriage. Nerissa is saying that Portia should get married before she is too old because she isn’t happy as she is. This is not much unlike Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet was told the same by the maid.

Shylock <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Your single bond; and, in a merry sport, if you repay me not on such a day, in such a place, such sum or sums as are expressed in the condition, let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken in what part of your body pleaseth me.” I, iii, 142-150

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">If Bassanio doesn’t repay Shylock on the correct date, he will have to give him one pound of flesh from wherever Shylock wants. This is very similar to the loan sharks that can be found throughout time up to present day. If you don’t repay them at a certain date, they will send out somebody to not only get the money, but also to hurt them in some way. This is also expressed in the movie Rocky, when Rocky tells his friend that if he doesn’t repay the loan shark, he’ll have to break all of his fingers.

Ambyr Wilson <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**“Why then, you are in love.” -Solanio (1.1.46)** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**This line reminds me of how people in movies don’t take risks when they are in love. To me, love is something that is important in people’s lives. This quote makes me think of someone asking why they won’t do something when they should because they are in love.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**“I owe the most, in money and in love” -Bassanio (1.1.131)** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**This line makes me think of how people owe money on houses and cars and how it relates to how they may owe someone in love. What i think this means is that you can owe money and have to repay other people but also someone may love you, but you have never given love back, so you owe someone your love.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Kayla Gaudin**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**"Your mind is tossing on the ocean." Salerio (1.1.8)** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**This line reminds me of when people have to make a hard decision, so they are confused and struggling. I have made hard decisions and when you have to make them your mind is confused and tossing like the ocean because you never know what decision your going to make.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**"Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad because you are not merry; and 'twere as easy for you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry because you are not sad." Solanio (1.1.46-49)** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**This line reminds me of when people say that someone must be sad because they don't have someone to love. Everyone or anyone can be happy if they are single. And if you are not sad then you must be happy because you are cheery.**

Kaitlin Langervin Period 6

Antonio (1.1.77-79) I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano - a stage where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one.

What Antonio is saying he is an important person that has many opportunities in life, but what he feels is his part going to be much more depressing and sorrowful than the others.

Salerio (1.1.8) Your mind is tossing on the ocean,

Salerio is saying that Antonio does not have a good handle on what he is feeling or saying at this point because of how sad he is. Salerio makes a comparison to the ocean for the reason that it can be unpredictable and powerful, but also because of of unstable it can become like Antonio’s feelings.

Ashley Mackin “O me, the word choose! I may neither / choose who I would nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a / living daughter curb’d by the will of a dead father. Is it not / hard, Nerissa, that I cannot chose one, nor refuse none?” 1.2.22

Portia is observably opposed to the will of her deceased father who still appears to have control over her life. Though she wishes to be in control of who she shall marry, Portia is honorable to her father’s requests and follow the will. Her tone in this quote shows that she is an independent person and quite honorable. This quote shows the difference of the cultures when compared to modern day culture. Now, most cultures don’t truly value marriage like they used to. People in present days can choose who to wed and if they wish to wed, unlike times where the choice of spouse was chosen by the father.

“O father Abram, what these Christians are, / Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect / the thoughts of others!” 1.3.159

Throughout this play we will see the intolerance of Christians to the Jews unfold. Shylock, a Jew, is expressing the harsh treatments of the Christians to a religious figure. The Christians are unkind, unholy, and ugly to those not of their faith. Along with the rude behavior, the Christians are quite judgmental. This in a way shows that the Jews are a kinder people. They do not degrade the Christians the was the Christians dish it out. For now, the Jews seem vary patient with them.

Silvia Lutick

Antonio (1.1. 77-78)

“I had the world but as the world, Gratiano- A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”

The world is like a play. Everyone in this world is an actor and therefore has a role. At this time his role is a sad one. His life as of now, is not very good. He is depressed and does not know where his next step will take him.

He is comparing the fact that when you are on stage you play a character. That character can either shows the downsides or upsides of his/her character. It depends on how the character interprets or deals with the dilemma(s) they are facing.

Antonio (1.3. 96-100)

“The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

The devil has ulterior motives. He does anything he can do to get what he wants. He can be in disguise of a good character/pretend being good when really he is evil. He is the lord of lies. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++