Shakespeare can attest to this. Calpurnia was even a witness to the hateful actions from superior men. Portia says to Brutus “A woman well-reputed, Cato’s daughter/ Think you I am no stronger than my sex.” (Shakespeare 27). Shakespeare’s purpose for writing about the women in this play is to capture the audience’s thinking. He wanted to convey the message of their purposes and many cannot see that they have one; however, they did, it was to show how they had the voice and they tried their hardest to speak. Their throats were dry from continuously trying to speak all they wanted was for their husbands to listen. The impact that women like Calpurnia and Portia could have made in Ancient Rome will never be known. No one would listen to what these powerful minds knew, and Shakespeare wrote in a way that seemingly supported that fact. However, the opposite was true. He wanted to use his talents to prove a point in the society he lived in and in every age to