Portia And Calpurnia Research Paper

Compare and contrast of Calpurnia and Portia Calpurnia and Portia were both noble women married to men of high authority.
Portia was worried about the change of Brutus’s behavior because he was acting different. She was concerned and desperate to know what Brutus was going through. Calpurnia was worried about Julius Caesar because she having having bad dreams and thoughts that something bad was going to happen to Caesar if he went to the Capitol. Both Portia and Calpurnia confronted their husbands and receive different reactions. First, Shakespeare gave Portia and Calpurnia many alike things in the story. Both women are wives of key people in the story (Portia - Brutus, Calpurnia - Julius Caesar). Both of them try to persuade their husbands
and they both do. Portia persuades Brutus to give her details of the conspiracy, and Calpurnia persuades Julius Caesar not to go to the capitol because she had bad dreams. Caesar was persuaded by Decius to go to the capitol. After Caesar is murdered neither one of the women makes a re-entrance. Second,