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Behn's "Agnes De Castro" (1688) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - sexual response: oh, that conventionally attractive person is hot. Ace perspective: that hot person would make a great drawing reference
      - Ace perspectives help us see and rethink hierarchies in relationship
        
        If in media and culture, sexuality is compulsory and all relationship must be predicated on sex acts, ace perspectives show us alternatives
- - - - Best friend and serving maid/chamber maid, Agnes de Castro; everybody loves her- "she was Beautiful to excess, Wise, Discreet, Witty, and had more tenderness for Constantia than she had for herself" (128). I love her, she did nothing wrong, but she needs to learn self-preservation. Emphasizes intimacy between women; it's at least very directly oriented to Constantia; her beauty as "too" much, and it sets up some dangerous conflicts
        
        Agnes standing up to hierarchies
    - - jealously embodied
      - Elvira's brother, Don Alvaro (in love with Agnes)
- - - - how many times does she run away and that gets misunderstood as "oh, so you do like him"; "The King was now more strongly convinced than ever, that she favored the passion of Don Pedro" The King can't make sense of relationships outside of compulsory heterosexuality; the use of dramatic irony to critique compulsory heterosexuality
  - - - the emotional connections between women get worse; Constantia didn't have to die if Agnes could have seen the letter; even after resolving to die, it's "I want him to be happy" but what about Agnes and her choices?
  - - - the "force" in compulsory (hetero)sexuality
      - Self-preservation, yo
      - "excess"