... Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. Although each of these women finds herself in a social position and challenging situation that differs from the other, and though each employs ... are affected similarly by the constrictions of the dominant social norms that determined how women should act and what they could reasonably expect from life. First, it is important to point out that both Olivia and Viola are women who enjoy certain social privileges relative to o...

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• Grade Level: Graduate