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Merchant of Venice Plot (Act 2 (S2 - :boat: (LG debates running away from…

- - - - "In Belmont is a lady richly left"
      - A has to borrow money, all his is at sea
  - - - Gold, silver and lead. He who chooses correctly will marry her
    - - Remember B
        
        "He, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving of a fair lady"
  - - - "Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound"
      - They agree on a penalty of a pound of Antonio's flesh
- - - - B agrees to employ him
  - - - "What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica: / Lock up my doors;"
  - - - Inside is a scroll
      - "All that glisters is not gold"
  - - - S is said to have been in the streets shouting about his daughter and his ducats
  - - - Chooses silver, finds a 'blinking idiot' inside
- - - - Confirms he WILL have his bond
    - - Says another ship has been wrecked
  - - - He chooses lead, is right
        
        "What find I here? / Fair Portia's counterfeit
    - - "This house, these servants, and this same myself / Are yours, my lord. I give them with this ring."
    - - Has a letter from A
        
        Cannot pay his debt
        
        B must return to help him
- - - - D asks S to have pity on A
        
        Asks how he can hope for mercy if he doesn't give it
      - B offers twice the debt
    - - Says he is sick, but has send Ba (P) instead
    - - Asks S to show mercy
        
        "My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, / The penalty and forfeit of my bond."
      - As S refuses to take money, A must give flesh
      - Is allowed ONLY flesh
        
        Cannot shed a drop of blood
        
        All his lands and goods will be confiscated
        
        "The Jew shall have all justice. Soft, no haste, / He shall have nothing but the penalty."
    - - If 'alien' tries to kill a Venetian citizen, half their property goes to the person, half to the state
      - D takes only a fine. A gives his half to J & L
      - S has to become Christian
    - - A persuades him to give it away
- - - - "In such a night as this"
    - - P does the same
      - Both claim they slept with the lawyers to get the rings back
        
        Explain it was actually them
      - A says it's his fault
        
        "I am th'unhappy subject of these quarrels"
    - - "How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world!"