Portia In Romeo And Juliet

Portia In Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare uses the character, Portia, to display that even when you do love someone you do not always have full trust in them. Portia, despite her love for Bassanio, tested the loyalty and trustworthiness of her husband. She dosesn't know if she can fully trust him to keep the vows and the promises he made, in marrying her and to the ring of their love, in his time of trouble. When Bassanio leaves to try to save Antonio from his debt, Portia begins to talk to Nerissa and hatching a plan: "Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands / Before they think of us." (3.4. 50–61) Through this passage, we see it's clear that Portia does not have complete trust in her husband. She makes a secret plan with

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