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A 5 page paper which examines how Shakespeare’s witty women contrast with the social realities of the Elizabethan age. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Social Reality: Maria, Beatrice, Rosalind and Katherina , November 2001 paper properly! William Shakespeare was not only
an insightful social commentator, he may well have also been one of the first feminists. His portrayal of women, particularly in his comedies, were far cries from the docile
feminine creatures who were fixtures in the Elizabethan society of the Bards time. Four of Shakespeares wittiest women, Maria in Twelfth Night, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Rosalind
in As You Like It, and Katherina (or Kate) in The Taming of the Shrew were fantasy creations designed to contrast the realities of sixteenth-century society. These were females
who sought to form strong bonds with other women, "characterized by friendship, familial duty, socioeconomic dependence, service" (Tvordi 114). This was, perhaps, Shakespeares way of suggesting that there was
strength in numbers, if women ever hoped to break through the oppressive barriers of gender. Maria serves as a maid to Olivia (described as a gentlewoman), a woman of lowly,
subservient status who is expected to know her place. Lest she forget, there is always the arrogant steward Malvolio to remind her. She vows, "The devil a Puritan
that he is, or anything constantly but a / time-pleaser; an affectiond ass that cons state without book and / utters it by great swarths; the best persuaded of himself,
so / crammd, as he thinks, with excellencies that it is his grounds / of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in /
him will my revenge find notable cause to work" (II.iii.133-139). Maria decides to prove her feminine superiority by concocting an elaborate practical joke with the help of Olivias cousin,
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