True Strength

The last quality you’d expect a Shakespearian scarlet to have is strength, but that quality is Portia’s most prevalent. She has the strength to know that she doesn’t want to marry for wealth or status but for love, and she won’t let anyone stand in her way of satisfying that dream. She is a compassionate, caring woman who goes above and beyond her required actions and duties, especially being a woman. Her trait that I admire most is her intelligence to make smart, deeply thought out decisions. For with that intelligence is linked respect, and she has such an admirable respect for herself and women in general that I feel she is a great role model, and my favorite scarlet.
Portia’s strength, not only for herself but for others who need her, is so admirable and unique for that time period that I find her absolutely astonishing. Her prevalence and true leadership in that time period astound me. She has a vision of women becoming equal to men and she seems to want to start the movement towards this dream. She is smart enough to know that it is possible and she’s ambitious enough to make it happen.
While her qualities are dazzling and every woman should strive to be like her, Portia keeps herself distanced and quiet from those she doesn’t trust and tells very few of her plans or other such things. Her maid was one of few who knew of her desire and goal to marry for love, for Portia knew that she would encounter resentment and she didn’t want to deal with those who were to close-minded to accept her brilliance.