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Titus Andronicus Research Paper

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Feminism can be defined as “the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” It is something that is debated all throughout society today. However, the problem of whether or not women should be equal to men has been around for much longer than any of us. Feminism didn’t start to get big until the 1960’s or 1970’s when people started the feminist movement. With this movement women were seeking equality everywhere. The ideas that men were more powerful than women still hold today. They also held strong in Titus Andronicus. Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's most known plays. In the five acts there are fourteen people killed. Between the rape, insanity, cannibalism, and live burials, it’s hard to see why anybody wouldn’t like this play. But contrary to popular belief, this play, although one of Shakespeare's most known, was also one of his most hated. It has been called “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written” (Yoshino). Was it because the enormous amount of violence was too much for the time? Was the oppression of women hated by people around the globe? Many critics have given their opinion on why the play was such a flop, but nobody really knows why the people of Shakespeare’s time hated it so much. We do know …show more content…

Feminist say fighting is a an act of self-defense. However, if they were to look closer they would see that the women in this play had more than self-defense on their mind most of the time. How the women chose to fight back later in the play matters. Revenge is a natural response to what happened to them, but it creates new problems and they had nothing but murder on their

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