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*Gasps* Who would do such a thing? Anyways, in the movie we see a glimmer of the same treatment but in a more lighthearted way. Kat Stratford is a hard- headed, independent feminist just like Katherine in the play. However, in the movie Kat is more aggressive towards the sexism yet generally more chill than Katherina in the play. Katherine was just angry at everything, if a chair looked at her wrong.. oh boy watch out but, Kat was more angry at men and the inequality of standards for women.

For instance, Lawrence comments “the greatest triumph a woman can have, especially an American woman, is the triumph of seducing a man, especially if he is pure,” (Lawrence). Clearly, Lawrence has a negative tone towards women because he is denouncing women and labeling them as being corrupt and provocative. Lawrence ridicules Hester Prynne through this quote because he is saying that her glory was gained through adultery. He mocks the book because it invokes the idea that women will only be successful through corruption. Next, Lawrence says “Hester Prynne is the great nemesis of women,” (Lawrence).

In conclusion, William Shakespeare presents the theme of power in both Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra and discusses the impact of sexuality has on power dynamics in the plays. We learn as readers that in both plays, power can be dangerous and damage those who become accustomed to using it – and more often than less, they abuse the virtue. Power can lead to greed and disillusion those who become vindictive enough to try and control it. However, what many of the characters fail to recognise in both Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra is, you cannot control power, it

Synopsis Jealousy is evident in Shakespeare’s Othello through several sources, but most commonly seen as possessiveness over the female characters (with a focus on Desdemona) in the play. Brabanzio is the first to maintain ownership over Desdemona, but is clearly worried of her betraying him, which can be seen in the opening scenes. This sets up the argument on how gender and class produce jealousy, and less so to Othello’s race or manipulation. That is to say that a major factor in Othello’s jealousy is Desdemona’s

Women were always the secondary sexual objects for the gratification of male sexual fantasies. Feminist theatre was a voice raised against this perspective. It was the construction of a counter cultural politics where women pushed themselves towards the subject position. Feminist theatre argues in favour of the potential of theatre to revise representations of gender differences on the

There are many initiates the dilemma that causes the struggle he has with love and lust that influenced in his character plays. Mostly, Shakespeare considers women as symbols of lust since women’s beauty seduces men and makes them act in response to the desires that are contributed inside of them which corrupt the spirit. In Hamlet book, Shakespeare described that Hamlet became upset with his mother because she became the Claudius’s lovers, who were his father’s murderer. Therefore, Hamlet blamed all women and categorizes them as “Breeders of sinners”. As the writer

The Place of Women Authors in the Patriarchal World Victorian social boundaries force women to be enclosed, repressive and “angel” figure in the world of male domination. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar criticized on stereotypical roles of women that were given by patriarchy in “The Mad Woman in the Attic”. The word "madness" has critical value in the article because hysteria was originally named for female patients who complaint a lot so a direct link between women and madness was formed in patriarchal world. Additionally, hysteria roots from "uterus" in Greek that also show the direct link between madness and femininity. They mainly focused on that female figures were illustrated as only an angel or a monster from males’ mount that turned

Hence feminists demand guarantee of better wages, working conditions, and job security; more ambitiously, it seems important to eliminate the social and economic forces that motivate women to participate in pornography. 2. Second, pornography indirectly functions as an influential form of propaganda advocating male domination of women. This propaganda is all the more effective because of the popular view that pornography is primarily about power rather than sex, provides a basis for its social acceptance. This propaganda works to shape and maintain attitudes and behaviours that stabilize structures of male domination and increase the likelihood that society will tolerate violence against

She further argues, “In Virginia Woolf’s version of female aestheticism and androgyny, sexual identity is polarized and all the disturbing, dark, and powerful aspects of femaleness are projected onto maleness” (p. 264). Showatter sees Woolf’s insistence on androgynous nature of the great writer as a flight away from a ‘troubled feminism’ (p. 282). Showlater accuses Woolf of impersonality in Room which distracts the attention from the message Woolf wants to convey in the text. For her, these concepts of androgyny and financial independence are neither liberating nor as obvious as they first appear. Since the work does not provide one unifying angle of vision, it fails as a feminist

Dramatic Irony is a literary device used in this play to clearly state one’s characters actions or words but they aren 't clear to the character or other characters. This literary device plays a big part in this play ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, it helps set the plot. This device is used to build a suspense and mystery throughout the play.this brings the attention from the reader to the ignorant actions and words the characters display. In the story it tells you how Don John tried to keep Hero and Claudio from marrying. The audience knew that Hero was a maid and still pure, but Claudio was gullible enough to believe it.this shows the irony of how the characters didn 't know what the reader or audience knew.