[简答题,10分] Make comments on the heroines in Shakespeare’s comedies.

In Shakespeare’s comedies we find an expression of his ungrudging, equalitarian attitude toward women. The young ladies depicted by Shakespeare are always independent in character, prudent, cultured, witty and take their own way of life. There is Portia in Merchant of Venice, who, in order to save her husband’s friend Antonio, rises in emergence in disguise to be a lawyer to deal that wicked and heartless Jew’s conspiracy to put Antonio to death by cutting off a pound of flesh from his breast. Another one Rosalind, the heroin of As You Like It, is also independent, witty and resourceful. They are happy and make others happy. They carry their destinies with them and in speaking and thinking as well as in feeling are men’s equals or even superiors. In a word, they are the daughters of the Renaissance.