 Studying the Merchant of Venice? Here's how you can analyse that three scene two. The scene opens with Asano in Belmont and Portia is reluctant for him to make his choice about the casket. She speaks in Iron Bit Fintameter asking Bessonio to wait for a day or two before he makes his decision. Yet Bessonio refuses to listen and he speaks using assonance of E here to say that he wants to try his luck at choosing the correct casket. As Bessonio is looking at the three caskets which are brought before him, he considers how people judge things based on outward appearances. He decides that is not going to make the same mistake and judge the caskets based on just their outward appearance. This leads him to reject the golden casket. He speaks here using alliteration and he refers to King Midas, the Greek king who everything he touched turned to gold to talk about how gold actually can't always be good it can bring on suffering. The stage directions then show that Bessonio decides to choose the lead casket. This exclamatory sentence shows he is overjoyed to find Portia's portrait that means he can marry her. He speaks using this metaphor to describe Portia as so beautiful that she has stolen the hearts of many men and he's lucky to be able to marry her. When he opens the casket and reads it, the casket's message uses rhyme to congratulate him for not making decisions based purely on outward appearances. This is the best virtue to have according to this casket. Portia is really pleased to be Bessonio's wife and she speaks using imbit pentameter to say that everything she owns including herself now belongs to Bessonio and she couldn't be happier to be his wife. Yet she also gives him a ring and tells him that this gift he can never lose. He can never lose her ring otherwise if he loses her ring then that will signal the end of their love. Bessonio is happy to hear Portia loves him and he promises using this hyperbole that he will never lose her ring. The only time the ring will ever come off is if he dies and the ring is taken from his finger. Then Narissa Portia's lady in waiting enters and tells them using this exclamatory sentence that she too has also good news. Then Grattiano Bessonio's friend speaks juxtaposing these two nouns to say that whilst Bessonio was falling in love with Portia he also fell in love with Narissa and he asked her to marry him. As they're all celebrating these two engagements Lorenzo, Jessica, Solerio and a messenger from Venice enter. We can see here that Bessonio is given a letter to read about Antonio. Portia notices that Bessonio's mood has changed. He now looks pale as he's reading the letter. Bessonio uses repetition here to say that he was in debt to Antonio who helped him come to root Portia however now Antonio is unable to pay Shylock back. When Bessonio confesses to Portia how much he borrows Portia offers to double or even give triple Antonio's debts in order to free him. Bessonio realizes that Shylock does not want any money from anyone else. He wants a pound of flesh from Antonio. Hence Antonio is gonna die.