The setting contributes the fact that because the setting is rainy and in a home, it allows the writer to write that Porphyria is coming in from the rain, an extremely open scene, as coming in from the rain represents coming after all the hardship of running in the rain.
I love Shakespeare!!!
And what is music then? Then music is
Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
To a new-crowned monarch. ....
I stand for sacrifice; The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
With bleared visages come forth to view
The issue of th'exploit. Go, Hercules.
Live thou, I live.
-Portia
it is pretty much saying that Portia, giving a speech to Bassanio before he chooses his casket. She
gives him music in order to suggest that her rhymes are hinting at the
lead casket.
I am here to be sacrificed- she as an individual is destroyed to save
her father's estate. Here future is a function of the value of the
estate. It remains to be seen whether is willing to be sacrificed or
not.
She compares Bassanio to Hercules- who will save her. This is a
complimetn however she references him as a fortune hunter by mentioning
this. By saving Troy, Hercules got not the maiden but the horses of her
father.
