Merchant In Venice Setting Analysis

The Merchant in Venice, is a play written by William Shakespeare. The setting is placed in Venice, Italy where a young man by the name of Antonio is with a few of his fellow friends by the names of Solanio and Salerio. Antonio claims to be not feeling quite himself, he claims to be weary and sad, but cannot quite grasp why. His friends begin to make guesses at his sadness by suggesting he is worrisome about the ships that he has contributed money to may get washed away at sea. Antonio doesn’t agree with their accusation of this and begins to disagree with his friends. Soon, Bassiano, Lorenzo, and Graziano arrive in the streets. They begin to talk about why Antonio may be sad, and then leave just leaving Bassiano and Antonio to converse. Bassiano needs to borrow money from Antonio to …show more content…
Jessica and Lorenzo want to run away from Shylock so that the couple can finally be together. Lancelot has a plan to help the couple by inviting Shylock to dinner at Bassiano’s. The couple then steals all of Shylock’s valuable and they sneak away while Shylock is at dinner. As they all sneak away to Belmont, Portia is back into action with the Prince of Morocco. The three chests are gold, silver, and lead, with all different meanings behind them. The scene ends and we are taken back to the streets of Venice where we find out that Graziano has been taken to Belmont with Jessica, but not Lorenzo. Shylock finds that his daughter has disappeared and sends the whole city of Venice to look for her. Salerio is in fear that Antonio will be blamed by Shylock for the disappearance of his daughter. We meet back up with Portia where she is in the middle of the choosing with the Prince of Aragon who then chooses the wrong chest. They then hear of the traveling of the Venetian man, in hope for Bassiano, the bachelor who Portia and Nerrissa favor