A STUDY OF UNWAVERING SHAKESPEAREAN HEROINES IN AS YOU LIKE IT AND TWELFTH NIGHT
Keywords:
Women, Patriarchy, Elizabethan era, Gender Inequality, Shakespeare, comedies, strong-willedAbstract
This research paper will make a study of two unwavering female characters of Shakespeare’s comedies, Rosalind in As you like It and Viola in Twelfth Night. This paper will try to throw light on the quality of self awareness these two heroines of Elizabethan era possess, which make them the strongest characters of Shakespeare. It is a discussion about the rigid attitude of the people of Elizabethan society. They divided the roles of males as breadwinners and females as mere caretakers of house and children. They never allowed the females a free play of their emotions and actions. The society and the ideas were stereotypical. Females were the puppets in the hands of males. But Shakespeare believed that women were capable of being equal to men if given chance. So, he used his dramas as a medium to portray strong-minded women but who still abide by the rules and regulations of the society but with a slight change in which the women are happy and are not forced to be happy.
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