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- Controlling- 'upon the rack" "confess and live"- lexical field
- Smart- "I have work in hand that you yet know not of;we'll see our husbands before they think of us"
- Generous- "Myself and what is mine, to you and yours is now converted"
- Impulsive- "Pay him six thousand and deface the bond; double six thousand and treble that"
- Fed up- "I can neither chose one nor refuse one"
- Humorous- "Il prove the prettier fellow of the two"
- Rich- 'In Belmont there is a lady richly left'
- Beautiful- 'Her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece"
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- Portia is an antagonist as she is the reason Bassanio and Antonio have to go to Shylock in the first place because Bassanio wouldn't be able to ask for Portia's hand if he didn't have money and he was a avid spender and had no money for his own so he had to use Antonios credit to lend money.
- Portia role is also to bring humour into an otherwise dry play, Portia ridicules Shylock in the end by out smarting him while dressed as a man which a Shakespearian audience would of loved, also the whole storyline about her and Nerissa dressing up as men outsmarting the boys and getting their rings also provides much needed humour for the audiance
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- Goes from being powerless and being controlled by the men in her life e.g.. her dad with his will that he choses her husband to being in control and making a mockery of the boys e.g. by tricking them into giving her the rings and getting Antono out of his bond to Shylock when the boys couldn't.
- Goes from being very opposed to men and losing down on the "when he is best he is a little worse than a man" to having a lot of men in her life that she loves and admires
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- 'By my troth Nerissa, my little body is aware of this great world" first line Portia has - presents her as weak
- "For he understands not me, nor I him" - Shows us Portia is more interested in a mental connection than wealth in a relationship
- "When he is best, he is a little worse than a man"- Shows us Portia looks down on men and has little respect for them
- 'Whiles we shut the gates on one wooer, another knocks at the door"- Shows Portia is popular but that she doesn't appreciated or like the popularity probably because she knows there only there for her fortune
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