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GCSE English Literature · key term
A person who guarantees another person's obligation and accepts responsibility if that obligation is not fulfilled.
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Paper 1
A person who guarantees another person’s debt or obligation. Antonio acts as Bassanio’s surety.
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation and accepts responsibility if it is broken.
A person who guarantees another person’s debt or obligation and accepts responsibility if it is not fulfilled.
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A person who guarantees another person's obligation. Antonio becomes a surety for Bassanio's renewed promise to Portia.
Paper 1
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation and accepts responsibility if it is not fulfilled.
Revise: AntonioHe now offers to be bound again, staking his soul on Bassanio’s future faithfulness to Portia. This structural echo transforms him from the guarantor who enabled the courtship into the surety who helps restore the marriage. He hands Bassanio the returned ring, supporting the marital promise he earlier helped undermine.
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation. Antonio first guarantees the loan used by Bassanio, then guarantees Bassanio’s renewed promise to Portia.
A person who guarantees that another person’s obligation will be fulfilled.
Paper 2
A person who guarantees that another person will fulfil an obligation.
Revise: Plot overviewAntonio becomes Bassanio's surety again, this time guaranteeing his future faithfulness rather than repayment of a loan.
A person who guarantees another person’s fulfilment of an obligation.
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation. Antonio becomes Bassanio’s financial surety and later guarantees his faithfulness to Portia.
Someone who guarantees another person’s obligation. Antonio becomes surety for Bassanio’s renewed faithfulness at the end of the play.
A person who guarantees that another person will fulfil an obligation, accepting responsibility if they fail.
Component 1
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation. Antonio guarantees the loan used by Bassanio.
Revise: Plot overviewAntonio again becomes Bassanio’s surety, this time promising that he will keep faith with Portia. Portia also produces news that three of Antonio’s ships have reached harbour safely. Nerissa gives Lorenzo and Jessica the deed securing their future inheritance from Shylock.
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation, accepting responsibility if that person fails to fulfil it.
A person who guarantees another person’s obligation and accepts responsibility if it is not fulfilled.
