Jessica

=Jessica=

Jessica in Merchant of Venice
In The Merchant of Venice, Jessica is the daughter of Shylock, a Jewish money lender. She is in love with Lorenzo, a friend of Antonio and Bassanio. They plan to steal from Jessica's' father and runaway to elope.

Jessica in Serpent of Venice
In The Serpent of Venice, Jessica is still in love with Lorenzo and they still had planned to steal money from her father and runaway together, yet what he had planned was to kill her. That was until he dies. She is also still Jewish. Her personality changes whereas she is rather rude and a smart mouth.

Act Il
Jessica is first introduced into the book when she finds Lorenzo on the shore side and brings him up to her home where she planned to give him a circumcision. She had wished to make him her slave, technically her fathers slave. Originally her plan was to make Lorenzo her fathers slave so then she could elope with Lorenzo and not worry about her father being home alone.

Act IIl
Jessica leaves her home with Lorenzo thinking she will be reunited with Lorenzo and they can be happy together, or so she thought. During the trip, Lorenzo wakes up yelling " You're the bloody Jewess!" Jessica was annoyed of him. Lorenzo then said that he now realizes that Jessica is the Jewess that he is not suppose to shag. Jessica said " I'd snatch your bullocks off and fed them to the fish if you tried..." She basically shows her hatred towards Lorenzo.

Act lV
Jessica returns from rescuing Jeff and has him in a sack playing around with her hat. As they headed onto the boat Jessica says "Which rather forces the question of who the fuck is the fellow sitting at the back of the boat?" To their conclusion it was only Marco Polo, Drool's Venetian cellmate from prison. At the time Jessica was not talking to Lorenzo because she found out about him spending her father's gold. So it worried Lorenzo, and he made Drool follow her around the ship. Lorenzo then tries to talk to her about it and all she had to say was "And will he repay my mother's ring, which I had to give for your fucking monkey? My father's turquoise wedding ring." Lorenzo informs her that she did steal from her father first. Jessica was worried of what Lorenzo would say when she told him she did not have money. That's when Drool says that Viv had eaten Lorenzo. Jessica was filled with tears not knowing this. Even though Lorenzo still lied why he had died Jessica was still in tears.

Act V
During this Act, Jessica and Lorenzo are at Shylocks court hearing against Antonio (still dressed as a man). Shylock and Lorenzo are both sentence to go to prison, but before they are arrested Lorenzo causes a big scene and changes the Doge's mind. After the court, Jessica and Lorenzo set out on an adventure. Shylock was mad because he thought this was a sign of marriage, although Jessica said she would never marry Lorenzo.