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is on page 99 of 212
also on julius caesar:
"In the orchard scene, Portia concedes her inferiority as a woman, but nonetheless seeks entitlement to the constancy of a man, first through descent from her father [...] next, through affiliation with Brutus [...] Men mutually confirm their identities as Roman through bonds with each other. Brutus can trust Portia only as a man."
— May 07, 2022 09:50AM
"In the orchard scene, Portia concedes her inferiority as a woman, but nonetheless seeks entitlement to the constancy of a man, first through descent from her father [...] next, through affiliation with Brutus [...] Men mutually confirm their identities as Roman through bonds with each other. Brutus can trust Portia only as a man."
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max theodore
is on page 160 of 212
on coriolanus:
"'There's no man in the world / More bound to's mother,' Volumnia claims. [...] In the play, 'bound' implies not just a specific moral obligation, but a connection equally physical and emotional that bespeaks the totalizing indebtedness of son to mother."
happy mother's day
— May 08, 2022 04:58PM
"'There's no man in the world / More bound to's mother,' Volumnia claims. [...] In the play, 'bound' implies not just a specific moral obligation, but a connection equally physical and emotional that bespeaks the totalizing indebtedness of son to mother."
happy mother's day
max theodore
is on page 143 of 212
on a&c:
"It is undeniable that, as Cynthia Marshall has recently argued, 'Wounded, bleeding, and lacking agency, Antony takes on a typically feminine position [and]... troubles an audience's notions of what it means to be a (masculine) hero.' But that is precisely the point. That Antony fails to perform his suicide effectively exposes it AS a performance."
— May 07, 2022 05:56PM
"It is undeniable that, as Cynthia Marshall has recently argued, 'Wounded, bleeding, and lacking agency, Antony takes on a typically feminine position [and]... troubles an audience's notions of what it means to be a (masculine) hero.' But that is precisely the point. That Antony fails to perform his suicide effectively exposes it AS a performance."
max theodore
is on page 135 of 212
dr coppelia kahn dropping "the wheel has come full circle" into an essay that is already making me insane should register as a hate crime
— May 07, 2022 05:46PM
max theodore
is on page 80 of 212
on julius caesar:
“As long as Brutus sees himself in another man’s eyes, he is a Roman, whole and coherent. But when (in act 2, scene 1) Portia reflects a different image of him as divided and troubled, that Roman identity is, however fleetingly, compromised.”
— May 07, 2022 09:48AM
“As long as Brutus sees himself in another man’s eyes, he is a Roman, whole and coherent. But when (in act 2, scene 1) Portia reflects a different image of him as divided and troubled, that Roman identity is, however fleetingly, compromised.”
max theodore
is on page 73 of 212
"Tracing Virgilian parallels, Jonathan Bate points out that 'as in the Aeneid, the main threat to [Titus] is an exotic woman from a rival empire,' and that 'Virgil's Lavinia, the mother of early Rome, becomes the mutilated daughter of late Rome" i'm beginning to foam at the mouth
— May 06, 2022 12:32PM
max theodore
is on page 50 of 212
"The only members of the family whose destiny is to leave it, [daughters] are thus made liminal, and turned into creatures of passage."
— May 06, 2022 11:30AM
max theodore
is on page 45 of 212
on lucrece:
"As Michael Platt points out, Lucrece can be seen as a 'brief epic' resembling the Iliad or the Aeneid in centering on 'the destruction and foundation of cities.' Lucrece's body stands in the place of Troy; on its ruins is the new republic Rome built."
— May 05, 2022 02:47PM
"As Michael Platt points out, Lucrece can be seen as a 'brief epic' resembling the Iliad or the Aeneid in centering on 'the destruction and foundation of cities.' Lucrece's body stands in the place of Troy; on its ruins is the new republic Rome built."
Thd line "I grant I am a woman, but one lord Brutus took to wife" can be read in the light that Brutus only can trust her because she's connected to these men, but to me, it's more of her calling on the fact that Brutus cares about her. She's conceding inferiority only as far as she has to because of her culture, she actually knows Brutus loves and respects her enough. But those are just my thoughts.