Goneril and Regan
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- Created on: 22-09-13 14:04
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- Goneril and Regan
- Unfeminine lust towards Edmund
- "The open female mouth signifies sexual incontinence" Lisa Jardine
- Both speak over exaggerated words
- Goneril and Regan
- Unfeminine lust towards Edmund
- "The open female mouth signifies sexual incontinence" Lisa Jardine
- Both speak over exaggerated words
- Goneril: "breath poor and speech unable" 162 Regan: "Myself an enemy to all other joys" 163
- Women that spoke against their husbands were named 'shrews' and publicly humiliated
- Both speak over exaggerated words
- "The open female mouth signifies sexual incontinence" Lisa Jardine
- Masculine
- Regan does a man's job by killing servant
- "Give me thy sword" pg 301
- Regan does a man's job by killing servant
- Their assertiveness would shock Elizabethan audience - they subvert feminine qualities (Unnatural)
- They refuse to follow the Chain of Being
- "Women are commanded to be subject to men by the laws of nature" John Knox
- They refuse to follow the Chain of Being
- Vicious behaviour shown through animal imagery
- Goneril: "sharp toothed" "vulture" "wolvish visage" "detested kite"
- Regan: "serpent"
- Likening her to Satan - lowest form of evil in Christianity
- "tigers, not daughters" "pelican daughters"
- "Goneril and Regan are clearly presented as demons, monsters, anything but human." Benjamin Rubio
- "Goneril's selfish quest for power" Martin Old
- "We must do something, and i'the heat"
- "Shakespeare gradually turns Regan... into a sexual sadist" Martin Old
- She enjoys Gloucester's torture - "th'other too"
- Unfeminine lust towards Edmund
- Goneril: "breath poor and speech unable" 162 Regan: "Myself an enemy to all other joys" 163
- Goneril and Regan
- Women that spoke against their husbands were named 'shrews' and publicly humiliated
- Both speak over exaggerated words
- "The open female mouth signifies sexual incontinence" Lisa Jardine
- Masculine
- Regan does a man's job by killing servant
- "Give me thy sword" pg 301
- Regan does a man's job by killing servant
- Their assertiveness would shock Elizabethan audience - they subvert feminine qualities (Unnatural)
- They refuse to follow the Chain of Being
- "Women are commanded to be subject to men by the laws of nature" John Knox
- They refuse to follow the Chain of Being
- Vicious behaviour shown through animal imagery
- Goneril: "sharp toothed" "vulture" "wolvish visage" "detested kite"
- Regan: "serpent"
- Likening her to Satan - lowest form of evil in Christianity
- "tigers, not daughters" "pelican daughters"
- "Goneril and Regan are clearly presented as demons, monsters, anything but human." Benjamin Rubio
- "Goneril's selfish quest for power" Martin Old
- "We must do something, and i'the heat"
- "Shakespeare gradually turns Regan... into a sexual sadist" Martin Old
- She enjoys Gloucester's torture - "th'other too"
- Unfeminine lust towards Edmund
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