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Representation of Women in Titus

Representation of Women in Titus. Women starkly divided between super chaste and super sexually loose Reassuring binary where others are falling apart Less interest in full / complex female characters Anxiety about female sexuality. Anxiety about female sexuality: Why?.

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Representation of Women in Titus

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  1. Representation of Women in Titus Women starkly divided between super chaste and super sexually loose • Reassuring binary where others are falling apart • Less interest in full / complex female characters • Anxiety about female sexuality

  2. Anxiety about female sexuality: Why? • Desire for control over lineage: “Nay, he is your brother stamped by the surer side / Although my seal be stamped in his face (4.2.127-28). • Sexual weakness or pleasure vs. manly toughness: “Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years / And led my country’s strength” (1.1.192-93). • Sexual desire in men seems either to lead to their corruption or be a sign of it (Saturninus; Aaron) • Power of charm: “Words more sweet and yet more dangerous” (4.4.90). Associated with the feminine? • But in every case above, men and women are bound together in a common fate (all have had sex, are vulnerable, irrational, deceptive): the sign of what they have in common is that everyone loses limbs (in Freudian terms, castration).

  3. Literary Terms Related to Sentence Structure Ellipses:Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep / Or if not so, thy noble heart to break (3.1.59-60). Such withered herbs as these / Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine (3.1.177-78) The eagle suffers little birds to sing,And is not careful what they mean thereby,Knowing that with the shadow of his wingsHe can at pleasure stint their melody:Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome. (4.4.83-87)

  4. Literary Terms Related to Sentence Structure AnastropheA goodly humor is it not my lords? / As who would say, in Rome no justice were (4.4.19-20). I will grind your bones to dust / And with your blood and it I'll make a paste And of the past a coffin I will rear (5.2.186-88).

  5. Literary Terms Related to Sentence Structure Circumlocution:Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor, When with his solemn tongue he did discourse To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear The story of that baleful burning night When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy. (5.3-81-84).

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