FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mean-spiritedness
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A lack of depth
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Stinginess
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Vanity
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bassanio says about Gratiano that, “Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, you shall seek all day and when you have them they are not worth the search."
Detailed explanation-2: -He is young; he is in love; and he is, by nature, impulsive and romantic. Young men in love have often gone into debt; thus Bassanio has always borrowed money and, furthermore, no moral stigma should be involved. Shakespeare needs just such a character in this play for his plot.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gratiano. A friend of Bassanio’s who accompanies him to Belmont. A coarse and garrulous young man, Gratiano is Shylock’s most vocal and insulting critic during the trial. While Bassanio courts Portia, Gratiano falls in love with and eventually weds Portia’s lady-in-waiting, Nerissa.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: bassanio was a friend of antonio and a noble venetian. his weakness is a lady whom he dearly loved. He approach antonio to add to the many favours he had shown him, by lending him three thousand ducats.