Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bassanio
- spendthrift
- "showing a more swelling port / Than my faint
means would grant continuance"
- Lives beyond his means
- irresponsible
- owes Antonio money and tries to solve it by borrowing more money from Antonio
- selfish
- shallow
- uses people for their money
- To you, Antonio, / I owe the most in money and in love"
- "In Belmont is a lady richly left, / And she is fair [...]
Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued [...] Nor is
the wide world ignorant of her worth"
- Language use is all about value and worth instead of love
- Seems selfish at first but ultimately proves to be a good friend.
- Seems to make irresponsible choices about how to live his life, but
ultimately a friend who is willing to lay down his life for another
- good judgement
- does not judge a book by its cover
- "so may the outward show be least themselves"
- apologetic
- honest
- loyal
- Portia
- does not want to give Portia's ring away
- but gave it away anyway
- does not seem to be as loyal to Portia as he is to Antonio
- "I am married to a wife / Which is as dear to me as
life itself, But life itself, my wife, and all the world /
Are not with me esteemed above thy life"
- Antonio
- offered his life to be taken in place of Antonio's
- selfless
- A loyal friend. One with a good heart.