The merchant of Venice: PORTIA
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- 8~ characters ~ Portia
- bound by her father's will to marry man who chooses correct casket
- "I neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike"
- "lottery of my destiny"
- destiny is not her choice - birth lottery; not happen to a man
- different from society's expectations of women
- witty and quick thinking (describing suitors)
- mocks Bassanio for losing ring
- says she will sleep with lawyer Balthazar
- in control of relationship
- racist attitude
- Prince of Morocco has "the complexion of a devil"
- Loves Bassanio
- submissive towards him
- "her lord, her governor, her king"
- "Myself and what is mine, to you and yours / Is now converted"
- nervous when he chooses a casket
- "I stand for sacrifice"
- submissive towards him
- bound by her father's will to marry man who chooses correct casket
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