... 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 ... Measure for Measure, and Paulina, at the end of The Winters Tale, both use silence as an emotional response to a marriage proposal.7 Cordelia in King Lear answers her fathers request for a measurement of his love with silence, not because she doesn't love him, but because she cannot expre...

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