Juliet,Portia and Cordelia are three heroines in plays of King Lear,Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice written by Shakespeare.Although they are endowed with various personalities,the three women have all show...
The female images in Shakespeare’s plays are diverse and colorful,showing the typological deformation value of topology.The brave female women in his plays,such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet,Portia in The Merchant of...
Before the Renaissance, women were always in the role of being oppressed and exploited, as a result, religion and litera-ture often focused on human weakness. On the contrary, the humanist movement focused more on hum...
Shakespeare had depicted various female images in his works, fr om which Portia is a brilliant and remarkable image of women who can represent the awakening of female conscious in the Renaissance. Thus, the present st...
Portia,in The Merchant of Venice,is the incarnation of Shakespearian feminism and the perfect figure.Beautiful,wise,and kind as she is,however,back in the then society,Portia was forced to depend on males and could ne...
In Shakespeare' s Merchant of Venice,Portia is portrayed as a legal expert.Considerable scholarly work has been devoted to the discussion of the play,and Portia' s ruling appears to be supported by a majority of schol...
After studying Shakespeare's works,readers will find disguise usually plays an important role in Shakespeare's comedies.From a realistic point of view,cross-dressing reveals the difference between male and female in s...
It is said that there is no hero in The Merchant of Venice, but a heroine, who is Portia, an independent, intelligent and beautiful Renaissance lady, who makes great efforts to grasp and defend her happiness. Her exce...
The objective of the essay is to show that Portia is an incarnation of beauty and wisdom. Through the analysis of Shakespeare’s creative intent, the author reaches a conclusion in the end, that is as a united charact...