These are the questions in Ball. \u00a0I can certainly go into more detail, but these are a good jumping-off place I think. \u00a0If anyone wants to take these questions and find more things, feel free.<\/p>\n
Where are we?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Venice, a Street<\/p>\n
What is it like?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are references that they are rich, so I'm assuming that the location is relatively lavish.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Antonio: "\u20ac\u00a6I thank my fortune for it,<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Upon the fortune of this present year." (Act I Scene I lines 41-44)<\/p>\n
What's the situation?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Antonio is in a sad state, and his friends are trying to aid him.\u00a0 He is in love with Portia, but cannot marry her because of the restraints that her father has placed on her ability to marry.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
What are the time and period?<\/p>\n
Who are all these people?<\/p>\n
Antonio-A merchant of Venice<\/p>\n
Bassanio\u00a0– Antonio’s friend, in love with Portia;<\/p>\n
Gratiano,\u00a0Salanio, Salarino, Salerio\u00a0– friends of Antonio and Bassanio;<\/p>\n
Lorenzo\u00a0– friend of Antonio and Bassanio, in love with Jessica;<\/p>\n
Portia\u00a0– a rich heiress<\/p>\n
Nerissa\u00a0– Portia’s waiting woman<\/p>\n
Balthasar\u00a0– Servant to Portia<\/p>\n
Stephano\u00a0– Servant to Portia<\/p>\n
Shylock– a rich Jew, father of Jessica<\/p>\n
Tubal\u00a0– a Jew; Shylock’s friend<\/p>\n
Jessica\u00a0– daughter of Shylock, in love with Lorenzo; Jewess,<\/p>\n
Launcelot Gobbo\u00a0– a foolish man in the service of Shylock<\/p>\n
Old Gobbo\u00a0– father of Launcelot<\/p>\n
Leonardo\u00a0– servant to Bassanio<\/p>\n
Duke of Venice\u00a0– Venetian authority who presides over the case of Shylock’s bond<\/p>\n
Prince of Morocco\u00a0– suitor to Portia<\/p>\n
Prince of Aragon\u00a0– suitor to Portia<\/p>\n
What have they to do with each other?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As is stated above, they are either in business with each other or in love with each other.\u00a0 Generally speaking, Antonio and Shylock are in business with each other and mortal enemies.\u00a0 Portia and the rest of the women have fallen in love and try to test their lovers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
What are they doing here?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many of these characters were either born into wealth or attained wealth through their own hard work, so their motivations are generally related to monetary gain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These are the questions in Ball. \u00a0I can certainly go into more detail, but these are a good jumping-off place I think. \u00a0If anyone wants to take these questions and find more things, feel free. Where are we? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Venice, a Street What is it like? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are references that they are rich, so … Continue reading Exposition in The Merchant of Venice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ball-group-three"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}