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  • A Monologue from the play "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare
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Character Portia
Gender Female
Age Range(s) Young Adult (20-35)
Type of monologue / Character is Depressed, Lamenting, Frustrated
Type Dramatic
Period Renaissance
Genre Comedy
Description Portia expresses her unhappiness
Location ACT I, Scene 2

Summary

Bassanio, a gentleman from Venice, asks his kinsman and friend Antonio, a Venitian merchant, for a loan so that he can court Portia, a woman from Belmont he has fallen in love with. Antonio can't lend him the money since all he has is tied up in investments so he suggests Bassanio to visit Shylock, a Jewish moneylender.

In Belmont Portia expresses her frustrations to her friend Nerissa. She is unhappy since she can't select a husband for herself. Her father has decided to make her suitors select between three chests. Only one contains Portia's portrait and the suitor that picks the right chest will have Portia's hand in marriage. In this monologue, in ACT I, Scene 2, Portia expresses her frustrations for not being able to choose a husband.

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Excerpt
PORTIA
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to
do, chapels had been churches and poor men's
cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that
follows his own instructions: I can easier teach
twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the
twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may
devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the
youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the
cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to
choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may
neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom 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?

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