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What is the effect of Portia's delayed entrance into the trial scene Merchant of Venice?
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The scene builds up an expectation that Shylock has every right in law to collect on his contract and kill Antonio. The Duke cannot find any loophole in the contract. However, he is going to rely on the advice of the lawyer Balthazar, who is Portia. The audience, who are inevitably hoping that Antonio has some way out, hope that Balthazar will pronounce that the contract is illegal (as indeed any modern court would do). But these hopes are dashed because Balthazar says that the contract is in fact legal and everyone (except Shylock of course) is once again plunged into despair. The delayed arrival of Portia thus creates a rollercoaster of feelings: despair, then hope, then despair again and then, at the last possible minute, a reprieve.
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