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Bassanio is a loyal character to his friends and those who trust him.
We have many examples throughout the play of Bassanios loyalty.
Most of these scenes show us his loyalty to his best friend Antonio.
Antonio got a loan from his enemy Shylock of 3000 ducats for 3
months, as Bassanio needed the money to buy gifts for an heiress to
impress her and marry her. However Shylock made a crazy deal, if
Antonio were to not be able to provide the money in those 3 months,
Shylock could get a pound of his flesh, and Antonio agreed.
Bassanio was successful and married the heiress,Portia. However,
news got to him letting him know Antonio had lost all his cargo ships
and therefore couldn’t fulfill his deal with Shylock. Bassanio could
have ignored the letter and let Antonio die in Shylocks arms, but
instead he went back to Venice to help Antonio out. This shows
loyalty. He didn’t leave Antonio and forget about him, he returned
back and tried to fix the trouble Antonio was in as he couldn’t lose
his friend.
The text would be written in old school as it’s a play set in the 16th
century in Venice.
I would set the background image behind the text in a court room
with Shylock in the middle knelt down crying. By his side I would
place Antonio and Bassanio hugging and crying. And Portia smiling
dressed as the judge.
The reason for having Shylock knelt down, crying as the centre piece
is to get the audience thinking what happened to him and why is
everyone around him happy? We know they’re all happy for
Antonio’s victory.
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