How Did Portia Choose The Gold Casket

This lottery is effective in choosing Portia’s husband because there are inscriptions on each of the caskets, that act as riddles that only Portia’s true love will decode and choose the right casket. The lottery also has a solemn vow that is absolutely devastating if the suitors choose wrong. Which ever suitor chooses the correct casket is wise enough, and

Prince Morocco is the first suitor we meet and right away when we meet him, he mentions that though his skin is darker, his blood is as red and his love as true as any pale northern guy. The Prince would change his skin color to gain Portia's love. He chooses the gold casket because he read the description of the casket in the wrong way. He thought that lead was not good enough. He almost
He was foolish to believe he could judge himself as worthy, and his prize was a picture of a fool. The Prince goes through a line of reasoning like the Prince of Morocco's. Arragon says the lead casket needs to be better-looking before he'd risk anything for it. He then rules out the gold casket as something that would only appeal to those deceived into valuing appearances more than actual value. He says if people were better at judging what was deserved, some great men would be knocked down, and some poor men raised up. Still, he's weighed it and decided he deserves Portia—so he picks the silver casket. There are always going to be fools with silver hair covering their head, as the silver casket covered the picture of the fool. The Prince of Arragon was foolish in thinking that he deserved
Women can wear makeup, and those who wear most are the least prized. Beautiful hair is nice, but wigs with pretty golden locks can be made from dead people's hair. Using all this reasoning, Bassanio makes his choice. He dismisses the gold casket for being like food touched by King Midas—shiny but inedible. He dismisses the silver casket as the paler of the two metals that are both made base because they're used to make coins of money. That leaves him the lead casket, which he admits is threatening, but moves him more with its paleness than the eloquence of the other two precious metal caskets. Bassanio is so shocked he got it right that he says he won't accept what the scroll says as true until Portia accepts