Portia is one of the most prominent and mature of Shakespeare’s heroines. In about 450 words, draw a character sketch of her.
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Among the heroines created by Shakespeare, Portia occupies a high position. She produces a powerful impression on our minds; and her role in the play is most conspicuous and memorable. When the play the Merchant of Venice is mentioned anywhere, people think of two persons, namely Shylock and Portia; and these two persons are inseparable from each other in our minds because we remember Shylock chiefly as a villain wanting to take the life of his enemy Antonio, and we think of Portia as the person who defeats Shylock’s evil design. And, of course, Portia has other qualities also to impart a measure of greatness to her.
As, Portia is the most beautiful, intelligent as well as obedient character in the play The Merchant of Venice. Portia has been depicted as an obedient character who obeys to the will of her dead father about her marriage as for the lottery of caskets, devised by her father to choose a husband. As she was the graciest as well as the fairest lady in the world. Although she did not like Prince of Morocco and Arragon, she politely speaks to them and lead them to the casket to choose one. She also was a playful lady as she gives ger opinion for all those six suitors who had came before to woe her. At last of the play we know that when Shylock with the bond came to take a pound of flesh from Antonio's body, Portia in the character of a lawyer, saved Antonio from death by her intellihency.
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