 Let's look at key quotes relating to Lorenzo's character in the Merchant of Venice. Now bear in mind that Lorenzo is truly in love with Jessica. She is Sherlock's daughter and in spite of her being Jewish, and of course bear in mind that during this time Jewish people looked down upon, a lot of people were very anti-Semitic, in other words they disliked Jewish people purely because they are Jewish. Of course today we know that this is wrong, this is an incorrect feeling to have. However Lorenzo, who of course didn't like Jewish people at the time during the Elizabethan era, he makes an exception for Jessica. He sees her as very beautiful, he also of course wants to marry her and make her into a Christian in order for her to kind of give up her Jewish heritage, okay? Now in contrast to Bessonio who pursues Portia because partly on the one hand he thinks she's beautiful but another really important reason is because she has a huge inheritance so he can use her money to pay off his debts so we do wonder you know whether Bessonio's love for Portia is entirely true and authentic. In contrast Lorenzo, who of course he encourages Jessica to steal a little bit of money, jewels and things from Shylock, however Jessica does leave without any of this massive inheritance. He actually genuinely loves Jessica, he's not marrying her because she has this massive inheritance, in fact she's going to be disinheriting herself because she's going to give up her heritage, she's going to give up her Jewish background, meaning she's not really going to inherit anything from her dad because she is disowning him as her father, okay? So we can see here that Lorenzo's love for Jessica is genuine, okay? Now Lorenzo is a really important character when you contrast him also of course to Bessonio's character, he of course is Bessonio and Antonio's friend so he is one of the key characters you do need to remember key quotations for. Now as you can see behind me I have essentially created key quotations relating to Lorenzo's character so let's look at the key quotations to bear in mind when you revise it for his character. The first quotation of course relates to how he is sending instruction to Jessica because he's going to go help her escape as she is going to dress up as a boy and then they're going to elope, in other words marry, right? And he states tell gentle Jessica I will not fail her, in other words he's basically saying you know tell Jessica that you know I'm still going to come pick her up and we're going to escape and I'm going to elope with her, okay? Now here we can see that he really loves and is really excited to be married to her because firstly the adjective gentle shows that he thinks she's really beautiful, he thinks she is such a good person but also of course he states this as a declarative sentence bear in mind that a declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling a mood in other words Lorenzo is showing his undying commitment to Jessica that evening. The second quotation to bear in mind when it comes to Lorenzo's character is of course here we can see his anti-semitism his dislike for Shylock especially given that he is Jewish and he states if ever the Jew her father come to heaven it will be for his gentle daughter's sake so here essentially what he's saying is Shylock is devilish not only is he a Jew but he's also a really bad person and he's basically saying that if Shylock you know Shylock is definitely destined for hell but if on the off chance he manages to get to heaven it's because of his connection to Jessica who he sees as like very pure very nice and so on. Now the word love analysis you want to do here is firstly the noun Jew okay and he separates the word Jew from daughter Jessica okay because he sees Jessica as almost separate to her father of course again this is showing just how anti semitic he is how lots of people during that time really saw being a Jew as almost a damn something that would damn you okay and of course here he's basically saying no Jessica is very different she's not a Jew just like her dad okay so of course there's a separation he describes Shylock as a Jew okay he also describes him as his racial characteristic rather than even mentioning his name. Now the other word love analysis you want to do here is of course the pronoun her which contrasts and is separate from the word Jew because this shows Lorenzo does not see Jessica as being Jewish herself. The other word love analysis you want to do here is of course the contrast between father and daughter and this belongs to the semantic field of family and of course here he's saying that even if Shylock and Jessica are related they could not meet any more different. The other word love analysis and key quotation to remember for Lorenzo's character is when he is calling out to Jessica so he goes to pick her up and she's dressed up as a boy and of course it's under the cover of the night and he confirms who he is he says Lorenzo and thy love and of course here you want to focus in terms of word love analysis on the literation of L which is Lorenzo and love and of course this ties in to Lorenzo being attached in Jessica's mind to someone she genuinely loves in contrast to her father who she really could not care for and she feels like he didn't really show her any emotion. The other key quotation to bear in mind of the Lorenzo's character is when Jessica is basically saying that you know she's really embarrassed to be dressed up as a boy however Lorenzo compliments her and says she still looks beautiful he says you so are you sweet even in the lovely garnish of a boy in other words here he's basically saying even if you're dressed up as a boy you're still so beautiful in my eyes. Now the word love analysis you want to do firstly is the siblings of so and sweet, the caesura hair after sweet and the adjective lovely here he's basically showing just how in love he is with Jessica of course also he's really enraptured by her beauty and even if she's under the disguise of being a boy she still looks really beautiful. The other key quotation to bear in mind and this is towards the end of the play when he and Jessica are looking after the massive castle of Portia and Belmont they're looking out at the night time and then he noticed the moon shines bright ellipsis in such a night did Jessica still from the wealthy Jew so of course here he's looking at the beautiful sky the moonlight and of course here in terms of word love analysis you want to first pick up on moon being mentioned as shining bright this is pathetic fallacy and he's basically saying this reminds you of the time where at night I came and basically firstly asked you to take all of your dad's money so that we can be able to afford to live together and to elope but also the night time is reminding him and making him reminisce on how him and Jessica obviously united together and became lovers and ultimately married. Now as I mentioned you word love analysis firstly is pathetic fallacy moon but actually in contrast to how night time sometimes is used to depict something dark actually here the moon is really bright so the pathetic fallacy is foreshadowing something good to happen and of course this happens towards the end of the play when firstly we realize that Antonio's life has been saved and everybody is really happy a part of course from Shylock okay so this pathetic fallacy foreshadows the happy ending of the play. The other key word love analysis you want to do is the semblance of such and still okay and it's interesting that the supposed Christians are the ones that was stealing from the Jewish person okay so even if the play is basically showing Shylock as a bad person interestingly enough it's the Christians that do the bad deed which is stealing from him okay now the other word love analysis is the alliteration of Jay in Jessica and Jew and bear in mind Lorenzo is constantly separating Jessica from her father he's constantly talking about her father as a Jew and Jessica being different okay so you definitely want to focus on that and this is emphasised through the alliteration of Jay and finally you want to look at the word agile the word wealthy and this is of course an adjective to describe Shylock who's the Jew so many ways Lorenzo is almost justifying that it was right to steal from Shylock because he can afford to be stolen from so that's it when it comes to key quotations for a Lorenzo's character