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- W2482192470 abstract "As the play progresses the contrasts with which it opened often seem, in much the same way, to become contradictions. The casket scenes provide a central example. At first sight the moral of the caskets is the difference between appearance and reality. According to traditional Christian teaching, gold and silver are things of this world and end there. The former is certainly desired by many men, as the casket’s inscription declares, but the skull inside mocks worldly goods and desires. The latter carries a similar lesson, with the further twist that only a fool thinks he deserves well. Lead seems to fit the same message: appearances are deceptive, so a humble outside may mask a rich prize. In the event, however, such riddles do not quite work. If Morocco chooses wrongly because he infers a rich inside from a rich outside, Portia is wrong to judge him by ‘the complexion of a devil’ even though he may have ‘the condition of a saint’ [I ii 123–4]. If Bassanio chooses rightly because he refuses to be taken in by attractive appearances, this seems inconsistent with the fact that, as he has already said, not the least of Portia’s attractions are her money and her beauty. Besides, Bassanio does not, according to the inscription on the lead casket, ‘give and hazard all he hath’ in any way that can be distinguished from the different choices of Morocco and Arragon." @default.
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