Vittoria
- Created by: Molly Hemeter
- Created on: 12-04-16 13:45
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- Vittoria
- Vittoria is arraigned by powerful male interrogators
- Women's social limitations within a strongly patriarchal society
- Deined the possibility of starring in her own tragedy
- Modern audience= more sympathetic response
- Her behaviour is often ambiguous
- Vittoria is the catalyst and site of conflict
- Jacobean society- concern regarding women's increased agency and freedom
- In some scenes she barely speaks
- Role within society = offer sexual pleasure
- She responds to Bracciano with sexual awareness- manipulative?
- Women's sexual activity was of tantamount importance to the preservation of family name and assets
- Dependence of her husband and family means that she cannot refuse Braccianos advances
- Vittoria's arraignment she attempts to assume authority in male-dominated discourse
- "The White Devil" was written within the first decade of James 1 reign
- Temptress in a theatre of male desire
- The plays were written by male playwrights and they were interpreted by male actors
- Relationship between characters rest upon social hierarchy- power, wealth and rank
- She attempts to take control of her own destiny by rejecting the husband chosen for her
- Women's increasing power to inherit and control wealth and property caused anxiety
- Vittoria- embodiment of evil
- Christian ideology- identified women as the source of man's' downfall (Eve)
- She exists within a society where women are currency, thus vittoria is an obvious asset to Flamineo
- Marriage in this era was primarily a political alliance between families, social tool
- Vittoria's possibility of advancement rests solely on her sexual availability
- Vittoria represents a considerable threat
- By attempting to fashion her own destiny
- Brachiano's passion for Vittoria is so strong that he orders the death's of Isabella and Camillo
- She is the centre of criminal action
- Lack of consistency in Victoria's character
- Her ineffective husband is not able to control her- failure of masculine authority
- Whole play hinges on the characters of Vittoria
- She is an anti-hero
- Vittoria is arraigned by powerful male interrogators
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