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Sex And Motherhood In Shakespeare: A Power Born From Disgust, Mallori Sorensen
Sex And Motherhood In Shakespeare: A Power Born From Disgust, Mallori Sorensen
Mallori Sorensen
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Finkelstein ENG 447P Women in Shakespeare
This paper analyzes the theme of disgust toward the female body in William Shakespeare’s tragedies Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and Antony and Cleopatra. The paper uses William Ian Miller’s book Anatomy of Disgust to support the argument that Shakespeare’s plays present the oppression of women as a consequence of males being exposed to their own weaknesses in their connection to women through sex. Characters such as Lady Macbeth, Lavinia, Tamora, and Cleopatra are examined as an example of strength in relation to their male counterparts to examine how women …