Shakespeare/women In Othello & Much Ado About Nothing
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...penning his immortal plays, women of the noble class were protected, and expected to stay completely within the private sphere. Women were thought to be weaker, less intelligent, and generally below men in any quality that can be named. Since women were prohibited from public life, and only received instruction in the "womanly" arts of music, poetry, etc., the societal evaluation of women tended to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. While Shakespeare's heroines are modeled along societal expectations, in many ways, they exceed the Elizabeth paradigm for feminiinity. Therefore, in some way, it can be easily argued that Shakespeare not only pictured his heroines as the equals of male cohorts, but also, in some cases, pictured them as superior. This is particularly true in areas such as compassion, empathy, devotion and love. An examination of the heroines of Much Ado About Nothing and Othello demonstrates this argument.
From the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare makes it clear that Beatrice violates the Elizabethan model of femininity...
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