ENGL 2P82 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hermia, Early Modern English, Egeus
18 Oct 2016
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Engl 2p82 a midsummer night"s dream october 17, 2016 lecture 9. Last lecture: focus on the way in which the play is structured in binary oppositions. Today: relationship between the domestic and the political. Has its epistemological roots in greek means literally rules by the father. Basis of it is the family unit, where the husband has the right over his wife and children, and he owns them. He has complete authority over his wife and children metaphorically and more or less legally considered to be his property. When we studied the taming of the shrew we studied the assumptions underlying the basis of patriarchy. Men are much better off in this system than women, boys will at a certain age become independent of the family and become patriarchs in their own families. Women will always be owned, as daughters by their fathers and as wives by their husbands.
