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प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
| Portia: | ... Lorenzo, I commit into your hands The husbandry and manage of my house Until my lord's return: for mine own part, I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow To live in prayer and contemplation, Only attended by Nerissa here, Until her husband and my lord's return. |
- Who does Portia refer to as 'my lord'?
Where is her lord?
Why had he left in such haste? [3] - What does Portia ask Lorenzo to do? Why does she make this request? [3]
- Explain, in your own words, the ‘secret vow’ that Portia speaks of. [3]
- What instruction does Portia give to her servant, a little later in the scene? [3]
- What do we learn about Portia’s real intention from her conversation with Nerissa?
Which Portia do you prefer- the modest Portia of the Casket scene or the businesslike Portia we meet in this scene?
Give one reason for your response. [4]
उत्तर
- Portia addresses her husband, Bassanio, as "my lord". Bassanio had moved to Venice from Belmont. Due to his friend Antonio's pending trial and his impending death from his debt to Shylock, he had departed quickly.
- When she and her husband Bassanio are not present, Portia gives Lorenzo control and supervision of her estate. Portia plans to leave for Venice to save Antonio from Shylock's evil plan of taking a pound of Antonio's flesh, which was forfeited when he failed to repay the three thousand ducats before the due date (three months from the date of borrowing), according to the bond.
- Portia mentions a secret vow she made to heaven, a vow to live a life of prayer and reflection until Gratiano and Bassanio return. Now that Portia is married and her husband has hurried to help his friend, she submits to help her husband in any way possible. The "secret vow" that Portia mentions is her secret plan for fighting the case, disguised as an eminent lawyer, on behalf of Antonio, her husband's dearest friend.
- Portia expresses that she intends to spend her time in contemplation and prayer at the nearby monastery alongside Nerissa until their husbands safely return. She directs the servants to acknowledge Lorenzo and Jessica as their master and mistress in the absence of Lord Bassanio and herself. Additionally, she instructs her servant, Balthazar, to visit her cousin, Doctor Bellario, in Padua to collect specific documents and clothing. From there, she guides Balthazar to take the ferry to Venice and join her at the earliest, as she anticipates arriving in Venice before him.
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Portia later confides in Nerissa, revealing her true plan. She discloses that they intend to meet their husbands in disguise, assuming the roles of a lawyer and his clerk. Portia elaborates to Nerissa on the specific mannerisms they must adopt to convincingly portray a male image while dressed in male attire. I admire the pragmatic side of Portia, as she maintains control over her circumstances, possesses a clear understanding of her objectives, envisions the future, and remains resolute in seeking justice for Antonio.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about Language
Here are some sentences from the text. Say which of them tell you, that the author:
(a) was afraid of the snake, (b) was proud of his appearance, (c) had a sense of humour,
(d) was no longer afraid of the snake.
1. I was turned to stone.
2. I was no mere image cut in granite.
3. The arm was beginning to be drained of strength.
4. I tried in my imagination to write in bright letters outside my little heart the words, ‘O
God’.
5. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out.
6. I looked into the mirror and smiled. It was an attractive smile.
7. I was suddenly a man of flesh and blood.
8. I was after all a bachelor, and a doctor too on top of it!
9. The fellow had such a sense of cleanliness…! The rascal could have taken it and used it
after washing it with soap and water.
10. Was it trying to make an important decision about growing a moustache or using eye
shadow and mascara or wearing a vermilion spot on its forehead?
Thinking about the poem
Discuss what these phrases mean to you.
(i) a yellow wood
(ii) it was grassy and wanted wear
(iii) the passing there
(iv) leaves no step had trodden black
(v) how way leads on to way
Do you think Prashant is good leader? Do you think young people can get together to help people during natural calamities?
Now listen to two speakers debating on the topic, 'School Uniforms should be Banned'. The script is given at page no 177 to 180. two student can be designated for this task
| NOTICE Class IX English Debate Motion : School Uniforms should be Banned Time : 2 mins (1 min for each speaker) Venue : School Auditorium |
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling,luminous,tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Besides visual imagery the poet also uses auditory imagery.Pick out the lines.
Of the seven hundred villages dotting the map of India, in which the majority of India’s five hundred million live, flourish and die, Kritam was probably the tiniest, indicated on the district survey map by a microscopic dot, the map being meant more for the revenue official out to collect tax than for the guidance of the motorist, who in any case could not hope to reach it since it sprawled far from the highway at the end of a rough track furrowed up by the iron-hooped wheels of bullock carts. But its size did not prevent its giving itself the grandiose name Kritam, which meant in Tamil coronet or crown on the brow of the subcontinent. The village consisted of fewer than thirty houses, only one of them built from brick and cement and painted a brilliant yellow and blue all over with
gorgeous carvings of gods and gargoyles on its balustrade, it was known as the Big House. The other houses, distributed in four streets, were generally of bamboo thatch, straw, mud and other unspecified material. Muni’s was the last house in the fourth street, beyond which stretched the fields. In his prosperous days Muni had owned a flock of sheep and goats and sallied forth every morning driving the flock to the highway a couple of miles away.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Where was Muni’s house located?
Who is Canynge? What scandal is being referred to? Why will it be a scandal?
Why does the snake kill insects?
What was Mr Gessler’s complaint against ‘big farms’?
Which of the given options contains the figure of speech that appears in the following line from Leigh Hunt's poem “The Glove and the Lions’: ‘Ramped and roared the lions’:
