julius caesar help on portia and brustus's conversation?

Question

i need someone to explain the whole conversation with Brutus and Portia right after when the conspiracy left. can someone give it to me in details because i do not get the whole conversation at all

Answer 1

Portia wants to know what is so bothering her husband. She want to know why is upset and not sleeping and stands out in the cold morning air. He tries to counter saying he is sick, and that is all, but she notes that he is doing things, that if he is sick, what is doing getting out of a warm bed.

She expects to be the one he confides in and he will not. She is annoyed that he would treat her as any woman, when she is the daughter of the great Cato, and wife to the great Brutus.

Brutus refuses and begs of the gods that he should be worthy of such a wonderful wife. He tells her that later she shall here what is in his heart and head. She exists.

Answer 2

The answerer above left out an important feature of that conversation: Portia stabs herself in her leg to show that she can be strong and reliable, and is therefore worthy of Brutus's confidence. Brutus seems to be favorably impressed by this act. (The stabbing is left out of the movie, but it's part of the play.)

I think one of the reasons for the scene is to show Brutus's gentle, human side. Similarly, you will notice that Shakespeare shows Brutus being kindly to Lucius, his slave, every time he (Brutus) has done or is about to do something, er, brutal, like supporting a conspiracy to kill his (Brutus') best friend.

The scene also may show that Portia was pressuring Brutus to do something, perhaps to kill Caesar. Cato, the father she mentions, was a mad drunken philosopher who hated Caesar (probably envious) and who, in spite of a distinguished career as a public servant, eventually killed himself, for reasons that are not entirely clear.

Portia hints that she is llke her father, Cato, and later in the play we learned that she has committed suicide, as Cato did.

I love the play, have taught it five times, and researched it down to the wings of the flies. If you have other questions, feel free to mail me--click my so-called avatar, to the left.