Measure gender Flashcards
Reifer
Her muteness may not signify the helplessness of an actress who has run out of lines / but the resistance of a woman who no longer wishes to speak someone else’s.
-Mirrors vow of silence not to talk to men/Chasitiy of a nun, her cyclical rejection of patriarchy
Legatt
About Mariana’s feelings we know nothing. Should we expect to know anything?
Goodwin
‘there is a verbal correspondence between the names Mary and Mariana.’
‘Shakespeare’s Mariana makes an ideal case for freud’
Mclean
You could conclude that her character is better suited to the contemplative world of the nunnery than to the fluctuating influence of the city outside’
Bloom - freud
That would make Isabella the type of all those gifted and beautiful, disturbed and disturbing hysterical muses of psychoanalysis, the women of Vienna whom Freud and his disciples both exalted and exploited.’
Hazel
‘women in the play are led to sin by men’
Cook
‘men facing sexual power of women they desire’
Phillips
‘women unable to have rights/ overcome ownership of male partners’
Cox
‘womens role is to be the tempter of men’
Alderman
Juliet is the silent suffering women
Dolan
Her existence in the play is less a story of individual agency and more a reflection of the expectations placed on women to maintain chastity, virtue, and devotion to the men around them.”
Goodwin
Mariana has a verbal correspondence with Mary
Holderness
Mariana a vicitor, her chastended husband binded to her
Donmar warehouse 2018
Mariana anxiously peels and apple - symbol of women’s sin, of sensuality and freedom and autonomy she cannot have
With the same knife she attempts to self harm
- Greater psychological reality
Fruit - burden of eves sensuality, but also expecation of marys purity
Maraina realisation of sexual conflict women face
