Did Brutus Love Portia

Need a claim In ancient Rome, marriage was less about love, and more about the need for a pretty possession to call a wife. However, Brutus’s relationship with his wife, Portia, was not like this. Brutus truly loved his wife as an equal. The first example of this is that when Portia asks Brutus to tell her what is bothering him. In Act II, scene i, lines 313-318, Brutus tells Portia that after he sees who is at the door he’ll tell her all his secrets, everything that’s bothering him. Then, later in the text, in Act II, scene iv, lines 9 and 14, Portia speaks of how hard it is for women to keep secrets, and asks Lucius to pay attention to how Caesar acts and which men are close to him. This shows that Brutus told her his secrets, told her what he and the conspiracy planned to do on the morning of March 15th. By telling Portia this, Brutus proves that he truly loves her and thinks of her as an equal, as if Brutus didn’t love Portia, he would have just not told her anything about what was bothering her and dismissed her questions altogether. He would not have allowed her to persuade him into exposing his secrets to her. The second
This can be proven in Act II, scene i, lines 246-255 when Portia speaks of the past night at dinner when Brutus was bothered about something, yet gave Portia dirty looks and waved her away when she asked him what the matter was. However, it is believed that Brutus only did this to protect her. Brutus kept what was bothering him from Portia because he did not want her to be involved in any way with what he and the conspiracy were planning to do to Caesar. He didn’t want any of the blame for their actions to fall onto Portia. This proves that Brutus truly loves Portia as he wants to keep her safe and protect her from the brutally awful murder that the conspiracy was planning to