Merchant of Venice

how does Portia feel about her deceased father's method of selectinga husband for her? Do you think that Portia's father's test seems like good one? why or why not?

Act 1,

scene 2

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Portia finds her father's control over her life to be frustraiting and unfair:

But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband:β€”O me, the word choose! I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father:β€”Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none?

The latter part of your question is asking for your opinion rathar than mine. I think it certainly makes the play interesting!