One of the distinctive characteristics of Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies is their presentation of female characters. Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies are dominated by women who are more independent and more free than women in the other plays. So this thesis aims to present independent and courageous...
One of the distinctive characteristics of Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies is their presentation of female characters. Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies are dominated by women who are more independent and more free than women in the other plays. So this thesis aims to present independent and courageous women, Portia, Rosalind and Viola. These three women are in disguise and solving their men's ones as well as their problems that are associated with their social status in patriarchal society. They show that women need their own identities to overcome women's traditional roles and to have balanced personalities. Portia, Rosalind and Viola take a disguise as a man. They can act and speak as a man and can be equal to him. Therefore they combine harmoniously women's merits (wit, care, sympathy for others) with those of men's (courage, fortitude, self-confidence). With these combined merits, they guide their lovers or husbands to the right path, from disharmony and disorder to harmony and order. In The Merchant of Venice, Portia goes to Venice, the masculine world to solve a trial between Shylock and Antonio. Portia disguises as a man to play a masculine role in court and overcome social restrictions. She breaks down the conventional hierarchies, transgresses against traditional gender roles and refuses to accept conventional stereotypes for female behavior. In As You Like It, Rosalind in disguise is able to reveal the maturing range of her attractive human person and grows into a fuller human. In the Arden forest, she is freed from social convention and can speak her mind freely. Her experience has taken her beyond the limitations of society's definitions of masculine and feminine. With this experience, she takes the male-Rosalind and female-Rosalind and merges them into a human Rosalind. In Twelfth Night, Viola experiences human freedom and growth like Rosalind. She is free to act out the full range of her personality. Liberated from her role as a young lady, she moves into realms of self-discovery. And she can exercise the role with which women are not supposed to have and overcome gender differentiation. Portia, Rosalind, and Viola solve their problems as well as patriarchy's, and uncover their disguises and then they return to women outwardly. But they developed men's merits through their disguises and show ideal personalities. That means in disguise they develop men's desirable qualities, not just imitate their behaviors and they can be better women than what they were. In conclusion, Shakespeare thought women as one human beings and treated them equally with men in his plays.
One of the distinctive characteristics of Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies is their presentation of female characters. Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies are dominated by women who are more independent and more free than women in the other plays. So this thesis aims to present independent and courageous women, Portia, Rosalind and Viola. These three women are in disguise and solving their men's ones as well as their problems that are associated with their social status in patriarchal society. They show that women need their own identities to overcome women's traditional roles and to have balanced personalities. Portia, Rosalind and Viola take a disguise as a man. They can act and speak as a man and can be equal to him. Therefore they combine harmoniously women's merits (wit, care, sympathy for others) with those of men's (courage, fortitude, self-confidence). With these combined merits, they guide their lovers or husbands to the right path, from disharmony and disorder to harmony and order. In The Merchant of Venice, Portia goes to Venice, the masculine world to solve a trial between Shylock and Antonio. Portia disguises as a man to play a masculine role in court and overcome social restrictions. She breaks down the conventional hierarchies, transgresses against traditional gender roles and refuses to accept conventional stereotypes for female behavior. In As You Like It, Rosalind in disguise is able to reveal the maturing range of her attractive human person and grows into a fuller human. In the Arden forest, she is freed from social convention and can speak her mind freely. Her experience has taken her beyond the limitations of society's definitions of masculine and feminine. With this experience, she takes the male-Rosalind and female-Rosalind and merges them into a human Rosalind. In Twelfth Night, Viola experiences human freedom and growth like Rosalind. She is free to act out the full range of her personality. Liberated from her role as a young lady, she moves into realms of self-discovery. And she can exercise the role with which women are not supposed to have and overcome gender differentiation. Portia, Rosalind, and Viola solve their problems as well as patriarchy's, and uncover their disguises and then they return to women outwardly. But they developed men's merits through their disguises and show ideal personalities. That means in disguise they develop men's desirable qualities, not just imitate their behaviors and they can be better women than what they were. In conclusion, Shakespeare thought women as one human beings and treated them equally with men in his plays.
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