Question

Portia's father, even though he is dead, has power over his daughter's choice of husband 'the will of a living daughter is curbed by the will of a dead father' (1, 2, 24). Do you think that parents alive or dead - should have any influence over their children's marriages? ​

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In Shakespeare's time a father would have every right to influence Portia's marriage. Marriages were often brokered deals between two families. In today's secular Western society women are given much more power over their own destinies. That sort of respect for women is a good thing.

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