My partner Ken and I, are presenting a scene where Portia is arguing with Brutus. Portia wants Brutus to tell him the plot to kill Caesar, and thinks that he can't trust her. Portia stabs herself in the leg to ensure that Brutus can trust her. The significant of this passage is that Portia is a determined and strong wife because she keeps pressing Brutus to tell her. Portia refers to about the gender difference. Portia thinks that Brutus isn't telling her because she is but a woman. But in the end Brutus acknowledges that Portia is a good wife and worthy of trust, to only to stop her from continuing to inflict pain on her body. This show that later on in the story, Brutus would start to acknowledge Portia more by trusting her and allowing her to know of what is happening with Brutus.
Act 2 scene 1
Brutus lines
(lines 288-290)
"You are my true and honorable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart."
Portia lines (lines 291-302)
"If this were true, then should I know this secret.
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A women that Lord Brutus took to wife;
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd, and so husbaded?
Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em
I have made a strong proof of my constancy
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience,
And not my husband’s secrets?
Brutus lines (lines 303-309)
O ye gods,
Render me worthy of this noble wife!
Hark, hark! One knocks. Portia, go in awhile;
And by and by thy bosom shall partake
The secrets of my heart.
All my engagements I will construe to thee,
All the charactery of my sad brows.
Leave me with haste.
