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A 2.5 page paper which examines how the ways in which Portia is presented in Act III, Scene ii and Act IV, Scene i, serve to reflect different aspects of her character. No additional sources are used.
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another superficial aristocrat, with not much on her mind except finding a suitable spouse. But because her father suspects most men of wanting to marry Portia only for her
money, he devises a scheme in which the winner of his daughters hand would have to choose between three caskets - gold, silver and lead - to select the one
containing Portias picture. This is how Act III, Scene ii begins; with Portias lover Bassanio successfully chooses the lead casket, which would make Portia his wife. A happy
Portia begins to reveal that, contrary to initial impressions, hers is a character of considerable depth. She tells her betrothed, "You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, /
Such as I am. Though for myself alone / I would not be ambitious in my wish / To wish myself much better, yet for you / I would be
trebled twenty times myself, / A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich, / That only to stand high in your account / I might in virtues, beauties,
livings, friends, / Exceed account. But the full sum of me / Is sum of something which, to term in gross, / Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; /
Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / She is not bred so dull but she can learn; / Happiest
of all is that her gentle spirit /Commits itself to yours to be directed, / As from her lord, her governor, her king. / Myself and what is mine to
you and yours / Is now converted" (III.ii.154-171). Here, Portia shows herself to be not only a woman in love, but also to be an insightful woman who harbors
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