Portia

Shakespeare offers a minimalist representation of women in his plays. While Portia and the Queen both share their insights with their husbands, the outcome of their sharing is minimal. Shakespeare presents these characteristic strengths through their words, actions, and their love for their husbands. Portia is depicted as courageous, intelligent/kind and heroic, while the Queen is portrayed as weak, stupid/rude and cowardly. Portia shows her superior demeanor by expressing her opinion…

Portia and Brutus share a relationship by being married to one another. They’ve had their differences like when Brutus had left her alone and didn’t want to let her in on to what the conspirators had planned to do to Caesar. Later on, he decides to tell her about what they were planning to do. Although it seems like he cares about her, when she dies, he seems to be unphased by her death. “She is dead.” (4.3.187) Cassius, the devil with no to little emotions, seems to care about Portia’s death…

Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. Calpurnia, the wife of Julius Caesar, and Portia, the wife of Brutus. Both women are the wives of the two main characters. Although there are only two women in the entire play, the short areas of the play where the women are shown are important to the play's development. The women are critical to this play, because their presence is foreshadowing of tragic events that will occur in the future. Portia is the daughter of a famous Roman general who opposed…

Although those authors cover the topic of work and leisure and provide us with examples, Anne Sexton, George Byron, William Henry Davies, and Portia Lane used events from their lives and converted them to poems. Sexton was born into a dysfunctional family as her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was constantly failing to get her goals straightened out. As a child Sexton was abused both physically and sexually by her parents, so she was constantly escaping from her house in order to find…

Caesar, Portia and Calpurnia, are portrayed as weak, not as women of power. Portia was unable to get Brutus to tell him what was wrong with him, even after getting on her knees and begging him. “And upon my knees I charm you, by my once-commended beauty, by all your vows of love and that great vow which did incorporate and make us one that you unfold to me, your self, your half (2.1.897-901).” Brutus’s response to her begging is that he was not feeling well and nothing more, but Portia could…

The article “Goldman Sachs Is Now Using Spotify To Recruit Millennials” by Portia Crowe, appears in the Business Insider magazine. Goldman Sachs Group, one of Wall Street’s largest investment banks, is running recruiting ads on Spotify as part of a unique effort to reach young potential employees. The campaign will run in both the US and the UK and link back to the firm's career quiz. The quiz will job candidates explore divisions within the company that are suited for them. The ad on Spotify…

numbers to overthrow Julius Caesar. Portia and Calpurnia each clearly differ from one another and clearly relate to Brutus and Caesar in different ways. Particularly, Portia and Calpurnia greatly differ from one another. Portia acts with more of a masculine disposition; whereas, Calpurnia acts with more of a feminine disposition. After Portia persuades Brutus…

the silver casket for it tells “who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.” Arragon sees the inscription as appealing and thinks of Portia as rightly deserved. Astonished, the Prince of Arragon makes the wrong choice and now stuck with a fool's head. What is…

Portia experiences the opposite type of home when she lived at Waikki, the seaside home, with Anna’s old governess. At this home she see’s how miserable Windsor Terrace is and begins to understand what a real home should feel like. Xioatian explains the emotions Portia’s begins to feel after living in Waikki and discovering the cold place Windsor Terrace is, “After the cautious quiet and isolation of Windsor Terrace, Portia is dazzled by Waikiki’s life-giving…

the consequences that may arise. Portia is a kind woman…