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Summary of Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 5 ICSE Class 10, 9 English<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Summary Act 3 Scene 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a garden at Belmont, the jester Launcelot is teasing Jessica that he fears that she is damned because she is a Jew (\u201cthe sins of the father are to be laid on the children\u201d), but she reminds Launcelot that her husband Lorenzo has made her a Christian by marrying her. \u201cThe more to blame he,\u201d Launcelot jokes: \u201cThis making of Christians will raise the price of hogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorenzo joins them then and pretends jealousy on finding his wife alone with Launcelot. He orders Launcelot to go inside and \u201cbid them prepare for dinner.\u201d He suddenly turns to Jessica then and asks her, \u201cHow dost thou like the Lord Bassanio\u2019s wife?\u201d Jessica praises Portia as being without equal on earth. Lorenzo jokingly responds, \u201cEven such a husband \/ Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.\u201d Jessica is ready to comment to his teasing when he urges her to save her comments \u201cfor table-talk.\u201d So with loving jests, they go in to dinner.<\/p>\n

Analysis Act 3 Scene 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

As in the previous scene, the light comic and romantic relief in this scene is dramatically in order, since it will be immediately followed by the courtroom scene, which is the longest scene in the play and certainly the most emotional scene in the play.<\/p>\n

Much of this scene focuses on Launcelot Gobbo\u2019s clowning and punning. For example, Launcelot uses \u201cbastard\u201d in a sense that can be both figurative and literal; in addition, he plays elaborately on the two senses of the word \u201ccover\u201d \u2014 laying a table and putting on one\u2019s hat.<\/p>\n

The tender, affectionate exchange between Lorenzo and Jessica at the end of the scene serves to establish their new happiness. They will reappear in Act V in the same roles. In both scenes, we see a Jessica who has changed and blossomed in the environment of Belmont, and this has its significance. Portia and Nerissa are, for example, \u201cto the manner born,\u201d but Jessica is an outsider. She was reared by a miser and a man who keenly felt his alienation in the Venetian community. Jessica\u2019s character and personality were molded by these attitudes. Now we see her maturing, and her new happiness suggests that Belmont (symbolically, a beautiful mountain) is not so much a place as a state of mind. Jessica\u2019s journey from Shylock\u2019s dour household to the sunlight and freedom of Belmont is, in its way, a symbolic journey \u2014 one from hatred to love and, especially in Jessica\u2019s case, a journey from sterility to fruition.<\/p>\n

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