Caesar and if anything is planned against him and the soothsayer says yes but he doesn’t know what. She gets very agitated and says “ay how weak a thing / the heart of a woman is!That is the last we hear of Portia until act 4 scene 3, when Brutus tells Cassius that Portia has killed herself by “swallowing fire.” He tells Cassius that “no man bears better sorrow.” It is in this way that Portia develops Brutus’ character, Foreshadows the Assassination, and Shows the severity of the results of the assassination. Both of these two women show strong character and if they had been sucessful in convincing their husbnds not to go to the capitol that day there would be no story to tell. Without the women we would not get to know the main characters and their reasons for doing what they did. But they were not successful and that is only another twist in this tragic story. ...
