Is the way Portia treated in Shakespeare's merchant of Venice Catholic?
For example, was her father right in imposing a test for her possible suitors to win her over?
She could have ignored that in the name of freedom ie Femenism but she did not.
What about her general behavior overall?
Do you think that the sort of test mentioned in the play is to be taken as a literal representation of how a daughter's suitor could be chosen? Or is it something fanciful and poetic?
Another thing to consider is that Portia, knowing the answer, could lead the man she wanted in the right direction with hints.
St. Thomas Aquinas was no feminist, it should go without saying.