 Now, let's look at key quotes in the Merchant of Venice relating to Gratiano's character. Now bear in mind that Gratiano is Bessonio's very, very close friend, and he accompanies him to Belmont in Bessonio's efforts to rue Portia, and of course, getting her hand in marriage. And whilst he's at Belmont, he falls in love with Narissa, who is Portia's lady in waiting, okay? Now, one thing to bear in mind is Gratiano is used by Shakespeare almost to add more comedic effect. He's depicted as very coarse, very rough in his language. He's quite garrulous, which means excessively talkative. He just cannot stop talking. And of course, also when it comes to the trial, when he accompanies Bessonio back to Venice and Shylock is demanding a pound of Antonio's flesh, he is a very, very vocal critic. He is very, very insulting, quite anti-Semitic. And do bear in mind, of course, during this time it was acceptable to not like Jewish people simply because they were Jewish. Of course, do bear in mind that a lot of the things that Gratiano says against Shylock, of course, today are seen as very anti-Semitic, very controversial, but it almost, he's used to reflect at the time during the Elizabethan era, how Jews were really looked down upon, okay? So, when it comes to Gratiano's character, and of course, do bear in mind that his journey to marry Narissa in many ways also mimics Bessonio's journey to marry Portia because he does give away his ring to the clerk who is basically Narissa dressed up as a man, similarly to the way Bessonio gives up his ring to Balthasar, who is basically Portia dressed up as a man, as a lawyer. He is mainly used to just add the comedic element, and of course, bear in mind that Merchant of Venice is a comedy, okay? So, as you can see behind me, I have selected key quotations to bear in mind when it comes to Gratiano's character and the word love analysis you do when you're revising for his character. Now, the first quotation relating to his character is in the opening of the play when he does notice that Antonio is really melancholic, he looks really sad and we learned that Antonio, he himself doesn't really quite understand why he's feeling so melancholic. Gratiano notes, you look not well, senor Antonio, ellipsis, you are marvelously changed, so of course, here he's basically telling Antonio, you look really bad, you're really, really, you know, you seem so sad, in fact, you almost look like you're quite sick, okay? Now, the word love analysis you want to do here is firstly the excellence of oh, and you look not senor Antonio, and also when he states you're marvelously changed, this is a declarative sentence. Bear in mind, a declarative sentence is basically a sentence that states a fact, feeling or mood, so essentially here Gratiano is basically stating what he feels is a fact that Antonio looks really terrible. The second quotation to bear in mind when it comes to Gratiano's character is when he travels back with Bassanio to witness the trial between Antonio and Sherlock and Sherlock is demanding a pound of Antonio's flesh, Sherlock is refusing to take anything else even Bassanio, he offers to pay him three times the amount, so Sherlock had given 3,000 Ducats to Bassanio, Bassanio is offering, I'll pay you 9,000 Ducats, okay? Please just spare my friend's life. Now Gratiano kind of throws in his piece, okay? So he is very, very vocal, he says, oh, be thou damned inexorable dog, right? Now here he's just basically calling Sherlock a hellish dog, right? He's saying, you know, God curse you. Now, the word love analysis you want to do here is firstly Caesura, so there's two forms of Caesura that are used and of course also him referring to Sherlock as a dog, this is a metaphor, bear in mind a metaphor is when you describe someone as something else, okay? The other quotation is when he's still at the same trial, okay, so Gratiano is very, very vocal and he's saying, Governor Wolf, who hanged for human slaughter even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet. So essentially what Gratiano is saying is, look, Sherlock, you are being really, really unreasonable and asking for Antonio's pound of flesh, you're not even being forgiving and he's then talking about a wolf, the story of a wolf where even the wolf was about to slaughter the human but at the last minute before the wolf himself was killed, he basically felt really bad for wanting to slaughter this human being. So basically here what Gratiano is trying to tell Sherlock is, look, if even animals like wolves have some form of pity, you should too. But also him talking about the gallows for shadows when both of us are in tuppets of contract correctly and basically tells Sherlock that because he threatened Antonio's life, he should technically be killed, okay? Now here, the word level analysis you want to do because this is basically Gratiano trying to convince Sherlock that, you know, if other creatures do it, you should be able to forgive as well and you should also be able to look back on your tale for actions with some kind of sadness. The first is a metaphor wolf, okay? Because this wolf also is in many ways reflecting how Gratiano sees Sherlock almost as a wolf, okay? The other word level analysis you want to do here is the alliteration of age and hanged and human. And of course, what this is showing is Gratiano is trying in a very rough way to convince Sherlock to change his mind about asking for Antonio's pound of flesh. The other quotation for Gratiano's character is when of course, when Sherlock and Balthazar is reading Sherlock's contract at first, he seems to be confirming that what Sherlock wants is fine. He can extract Antonio's pound of flesh and initially, Sherlock is really happy. Oh, great, Balthazar, you're such a great person. But then of course, Balthazar then reads through and says you can only take a pound of flesh if you do not drop one bit of blood from Antonio's body. Of course, this therefore means that it's impossible for Antonio for Sherlock to take Antonio's flesh. Now, Gratiano uses this to mock him, okay? So he mocks the way Sherlock was speaking earlier. He says, oh, Jew, an upright judge, a learned judge, okay? So he's speaking here in two exclamatory sentences, basically mocking in a very, very antisemitic way, in a very, very insulting way, Sherlock. Also, he repeats the word judge, okay? And of course here, this is kind of triumphant. Gratiano is laughing at Sherlock because basically Sherlock is now realizing he's not gonna get Antonio's pound of flesh and actually, if anything, he's gonna lose everything, including his initial investment of 3,000 Jew cats to Balsania. The final quotation is, of course, once Portia Narissa revealed to both Balsania and Gratiano that they had dressed up as men and that, you know, it was just a joke, here's your rings back. He ends, it's Gratiano that actually ends the play. He's the one that has the final word in Act 5, Scene 1, and he states, while I live, I fear no other thing so sore is keeping safe Narissa's ring. So of course here, this is supposed to be really funny for us as the audience. He's basically saying, you know, for as long as I live, the one thing I will never ever lose again is Narissa's ring. So of course here, the word love analysis you want to do, firstly, is hyperbole, I fear no other thing. He's basically saying there's nothing else in this whole world that I'll fear so long as I live as just losing Narissa's ring because, you know, when I thought I'd lost it and she was kind of giving me a hard time, she was nagging me too much, okay? So he's being very humorous, a little bit sexist, and of course, also you want to focus on siblings, so sore, okay? So really that's it when it comes to key quotations to remember for Gratiano's character in The Merchant of Venice.