 Studying the Merchant of Venice. Here's how you can analyse that 3 scene 5. The opening stage directions show us that Lancelot is speaking to Jessica in Portia's Garden in Belmont. Lancelot acts like a jester, a comedian, and he says this basically teasing Jessica that she is damned to go to hell because she is Jewish. She inherited her Jewish heritage from her father that's why she's gonna go to hell. Lancelot however repeats the word hope basically saying that Jessica does have one thing that may save her from going to hell. Lancelot then vanders and teases that Jessica's only hope is that your father got you not, that you are not the Jews daughter. Here he is joking and saying that Jessica may be saved if her mother cheated on Sherlock and she maybe had a different father that was Christian. Jessica responds using siblings and alliteration to say that she still has hope because Lorenzo is a Christian therefore this is gonna be her saving grace to get into heaven. Lorenzo then enters and he jokes with Lancelot that he's jealous of finding him alone with Jessica and he's scared that Jessica might be stolen by Lancelot from him. After bantering with Lancelot Lorenzo speaks to him in this imperative sentence asking him to go back into Portia's house and ask the servants to prepare dinner for them. Once Lancelot is gone Lorenzo turns to Jessica and asks her what she thinks of Portia. Jessica responds showing that she has a really positive impression of Portia. She uses this hyperbole to basically say that Portia is gonna make Bessonno the happiest man on earth she's gonna bring him heaven on earth. Lorenzo then jokingly claims that he is as good a husband to Jessica as Portia is a good a wife to Bessonno. In other words he flatters himself by thinking that he is the perfect husband just like the way Portia is the perfect wife. He then speaks in this imperative sentence telling Jessica that they now need to head off to have dinner.