Female disempowerment through sexual interaction in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare
Sophia Schwarzmann
Essay from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Birmingham, course: Plays and Performances, language: English, abstract: The essay deals with the oppression or emancipation of women in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream”.The essay will have a look at three scenes within which sexual intercourse is implied. In them the threat of male dominance to females within sexual relationships both physically and socially, how marriage can be a metaphor for imbalanced power distribution, and the possibility of engaging in a heteroerotic relationship without experiencing disempowerment as a woman will be explored thoroughly.
