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Role of Women (Women remain confined to an existence of 'nurturing'…

- - - - 'Bathe'
      - 'throngs of men'
      - 'duty'
    - - 'dog his footsteps'
      - seek 'justice'
    - - reborn in 'river lethe'
      - 'headhunter in borneo' 'french general'
      - evades true retribution for his actions due to 'legendary' status and fear of 'committing an anachronism'
- - - - 'septic bitch'
      - 'man eater'
      - 'kinder than helen'
      - 'worth a thousand helen's'
      - 'didn't she deserve punishment?'
      - 'the source of all my problems'
    - - 'duck'
      - 'you always played the little wifey'
      - 'stumpy legs'
      - 'divine beauty is such a burden at least you've been spared that'
- - - - Anthropology lecture
        
        'sir in the back'
        
        'theory about ourselves in incorrect'
        
        'smuggly'
        
        'feminist claptrap'
      - 'videotaped' court hearing
        
        'different value system'
        
        'blot on a distinguished career' 'legend'
        
        'dismiss the case'
    - - similar objectification and lack of 'justice' in Grecian society has not changed over time = need for change
  - - - parallel of Hermione + Rosalind's experiences
        
        'dank' cellar of the 'laboratory' at 'king's college'
        
        both forgotten by history - 'wasn't it the girl after all who discovered the secret of life' 'I suppose she just didn't stand out'
        
        Dies due to bodily betrayal - hermione = gives birth to child (Leontes think's isn't his) and Rosalind's 'twin tumours' ('ovarian cancer')
        
        develops due to her 'stepping into the spotlight' of 'the beam' as well as within the professional domain
        
        statue
        
        Rosalind 'still' 'unmoving'
        
        leontes + wilkins 'project hope' that allows statue to 'come to life'
        
        'main difference between the winters tale and pandosto the play upon which it is based is that in shakespeare's version the heroine survives' - there has been some change in terms of 'hope' for women but remains minimal
- - - - seen as mere 'feminist claptrap'
      - 'matrilineal moon cult'
      - 'fruit' found in sparta contrasted with the 'meat' and 'farming' symbolic of settlement and patriarchal structures
      - 'year king' supposed to be mutilated and hung following year of service but this is flipped via the 'hanging' of the maids and 'the genitals of a goatherd' torn off
      - ommision of 'sordid' 'rape and murder' from Homer's 'The Odyssey'
    - - epigraph Ann Patchet's 'Run'; 'wasn't it the girl after all that discovered the secret of life?'
    - - maintain power in greek society
    - - Women granted no 'respect' and judged based on values considered important within 'patriarchal' society
        
        'possibly attractive'
        
        'something novel with her hair'
        
        'just do one's work'
        
        'fall upon them like unrestrained beasts'
        
        transition towards this is present in penelopiad
        
        Objectification of women
        
        'worth a thousand helen's'
        
        'rape was a deplorable but common feature of palace life'
        
        'probably thought nothing of it'
        
        'didn't rape her as she was only a child'
        
        'slice of skirt' 'piece of meat' 'prize horse on parade'
        
        'their lines should run over hers'
        
        'Rosalind centre stage'; 'interupted'
        
        'men's senior common room'
        
        Rosalind 'taken aback' after Gosling declares 'allegiance'
        
        'sometimes I do much more than oggle'