ACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING

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Act 2 Scene 3

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Why is Jessica feeling ‘sorry’, what is Lancelot going to do?

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n this scene, Jessica reveals her unhappiness at home and that she wants to marry Lorenzo. Fill in the boxes beside the dialogue.

JACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING ESSICA

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What language device is used? What does it suggest that Jessica feels about living with her father?

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ACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING am sorry thou wilt leave my father so.

Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil

Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.

But fare thee well: there is a ducat for thee.

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What does the noun ‘pagan’ suggest?

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nd, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see

Lorenzo, who is thy new master’s guest;

Give him this letter, do it secretly.

And so farewell: I would not have my father

SACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING ee me talk with thee.


L

Why is this word funny?

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ANCELOT

AACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING dieu; tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful pagan,

most sweet Jew, if a Christian do not play the knave and get thee,

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What words suggest that Lancelot thinks highly of Jessica?

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am much deceived. But adieu; these foolish drops do something

drown my manly spirit. Adieu!



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In your own words, what is Jessica saying and how does it make her feel?

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ESSICA

FACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING arewell, good Launcelot.

Alack, what heinous sin is it in me

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What device is this and why does Shakespeare use it?

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o be ashamed to be my father’s child!

But though I am a daughter to his blood,

IACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,

If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,

Become a Christian and thy loving wife.


Act 2 Scene 4

In this scene, Lorenzo gets Jessica’s letter and knows how she plans to escape her father to be able to run away with him. Fill in the boxes beside the dialogue


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What has Lorenzo just received from Jessica?

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ORENZO

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What word is repeated many times when describing Jessica? What might this suggest?

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riend Launcelot, what’s the news?


LANCELOT

AACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING nd it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to

Signify.


LORENZO

I know the hand; in faith, ’tis a fair hand,

And whiter than the paper it writ on

Is the fair hand that writ.


GRATIANO

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What other adjective is repeated when describing Jessica?

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ove news, in faith!

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LORENZO

Hold here, take this. Tell gentle Jessica

I will not fail her; Speak it privately.

Go, gentlemen:

Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?

I am provided of a torchbearer.


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How is Jessica different from Portia? What do we think of her as a result?

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What is Jessica planning on doing?

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GACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING ACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING RATIANO

Was not that letter from fair Jessica?


LORENZO

I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed

How I shall take her from her father’s house,

WACT 2 SCENE 3 I WHY IS JESSICA FEELING hat gold and jewels she is furnished with,

What page’s suit she hath in readiness.

If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,

It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake.

And never dare Misfortune cross her foot

Unless she do it under this excuse

That she is issue to a faithless Jew.

Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest.

Fair Jessica shall be my torchbearer.




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