The significance of the caskets' inscriptions in the play, The Merchant of Venice were that each message on the outside of the caskets left clues to which one is the casket that will win Portia and her fortune. There were three caskets: one filled with gold, one filled with silver, and one filled with lead. The inscriptions are written in riddle-like verses that require hard thinking to under- stand them. The inscriptions on the inside of the caskets are poems that teach a little sort of life lesson and then tell the suitor if he is right or wrong in the choosing.
The casket of gold had an exterior inscription that said; "Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire."
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