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Comparing Female Characters In Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, And Othello

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Shakespeare plays vary in genre greatly. Romances, tragedies, histories, and comedies and each had it’s own way of blending the sex and gender of it’s characters. Each genre had its own rules for how sex and gender were used, by both playwright and the characters within the play, and limitations those uses had. Although women come to terrible, tragic ends in Shakespeare’s tragedies the cause for those tragedies are the fates and whims of male characters. Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and Othello all have women that face tragic deaths but those tragedies are primarily caused by the choices the male title characters make. There is also a “detachment from sexual violence” (Gajowski 71) in his tragedies. In Othello, when he murders Desdemona, Gajowski
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