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Calpurnia and Portia
Title: Calpurnia and Portia
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 539 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Calpurnia and Portia
In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar Calpurnia and Portia are two women of similar characters. Calpurnia is the wife of Julius Caesar, and Portia is the wife of Brutus. Both women are concerned with their husband’s well being and fear for their lives. These two women of similar character show how women of early roman times acted towards their husbands.
Calpurnia has a dream on the eve of the ides of March of …showed first 75 words of 539 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 539 total…t want their friendship to grow he just wants them to be husband and wife. Instead of Brutus trying to make it better he made it worse.
Roman women of that time were obedient to their husbands and sometimes treated their husbands as if they were kings. Women of today and of roman times are totally different. Women are treated equally just like their husbands. Calpurnia and Portia both were treated as servants not wives.
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