Portia's unflinching loyalty to her father. explain In( 300 words)From merchant of Venice by william Shakespeare
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The relationship between Portia and her dead father is patriarchal, as he exerts control over her life even after his death. Although she is a strong and intelligent woman who can convincingly present herself as a male in the courtroom and win a legal case, she is not allowed to choose her own husband.
The absent father acts a fairytale figure, leaving instructions that her future husband be chosen by means of selecting the correct one of three caskets, a fairytale motif.
Shakespeare can be read as critiquing the notion of patriarchy in this play. Believing a woman like Portia is incapable of making a decent choice of husband by herself is as much a fairytale as the plan her father devises to control her marriage choice.
Portia is not happy with being at the mercy of a seemingly arbitrary game of chance but manages nevertheless to be paired with the right mate.
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