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- Bassanio falls in love with Portia, who decides to help Antonio when he is jailed and bound by law to let Shylock extract his 'pound of flesh'.
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Bassanio has just achieved his heart’s desire by winning Portia’s hand in marriage, but when he learns that Antonio defaulted on his loan and owes Shylock a pound of his flesh, Bassanio’s focus immediately shifts to how to help Antonio, and he hurries back to Venice.
Nerissa falls in love with Bassanio’s friend Gratiano, who asks for her hand in marriage after Bassanio ‘wins’ Portia. Facts we learn about Nerissa at the start of the play: She lives in Belmont.
Initially, Bassanio refuses to give up the ring since it was an important gift from his wife, but Antonio convinces him to give it to her. In act 5, scene 1, Bassanio and Antonio return to Belmont and greet their wives who appear to be angry that they gave their rings away.
In marrying Portia and listening to her perspective, Bassanio learns to value his wife beyond her wealth and genuinely love her.
There does seem to be some real affection between the two when they're hanging out in Belmont. What we are saying is this: even after he gets hitched to Portia, Bassanio's loyalty to his new wife is questionable and he seems to value his bromance with Antonio more than anything else.
By agreeing to this bond, Antonio shows his great love for Bassanio. It has been suggested that Antonio and Bassanio have had a homosexual relationship.
When we first see Bassanio we find that he is in love. He has never met the young woman, only heard about her, but he is impulsive and romantic by nature and, her circumstances being a challenge, he decides to rise to that.
