... winning the day for Rome, she has sent Coriolanus, her son, to his death at the hands of the Volscions. Traditional academic critics have received this scene without much analysis, taking the character at face value and condemning Volumnia as a cruel and abusive mother, and insist that she is not "given a moment of reflection or of recognition that [she has] caused Martius ... . Hawkins sites the many appearance of Volumnia and postulates on changes in the context of the scenes in which she appears as evidence of the evolution of the character. Though Hawkins does not specify the male th...

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