Ambiguity Of The Character In Shakespeare's The Merchant...
On page twenty–five of Shakespeare's comedic play Merchant of Venice, Portia demonstrates her dislike of the suitors through dialogue and the ambiguity of her diction in order to demonstrate her feelings of unhappiness. In Act one Scene two, Portia discusses her true feelings about the suitors in prose to Nerissa. She begins by telling Nerissa her true thoughts about the German suitor: "When he [the German suitor] is best he is a little worse than a man, and/ when he is worse he is little better than a beast" (I ii 88–89). Through her dialogue to Nerissa, Portia uses diction to demonstrate her strong hatred towards the German suitors. By comparing him to a beast, Portia uses a vulgar metaphor to describe her suitor. The metaphor in her dialogue ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Also, through dialogue, Portia again demonstrates her dislike towards the German suitor by saying to Nerissa: "I will do/ anything, Nerissa, ere I will be married to a sponge [before I marry the German suitor]" (I ii 98–99). In this way, through her dialogue, Portia uses a hyperbole in her dialogue to Nerissa to demonstrate that she strongly dislikes the German suitor. Portia's exaggeration that she would rather be "married to a sponge" indirectly shows that she is unhappy with her restricted love life. Portia wants to marry practically anything before she marries the German suitor, demonstrating she is unhappy with her suitors and the "game" for her love. The dialogue is in prose, suggesting that Portia's remarks about the suitors such as the German one are too dirty and inelegant to be in verse. This is supported by her use of phrases such as she would "rather be married to a sponge" which seems like a rude things to say to a suitor, but also the rudeness of her words demonstrate her unhappiness with the fact that she has suitors and cannot choose for
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