... his heart from its seat," cuts off all his limbs, and throws his body out of the window, declaring that his "Since my virtue is traduced abroad, my revenge shall be as manifest, and this carcass be exposed as publicly as was my reputation." (165). Violenta gladly and with "insatiable cruelty" avenges her publicly destroyed reputation ... violently replicates her loss of virginity and honor in her breaking open and into his flesh. Finding herself beyond language, Violenta is this time enlivened by the violent actions of revenge, "as if she were conscious of well doing, and glowed with th...

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... been seen as the truth to many women in that time who would regard it as gospel because in that particular time women were told to be submissive to their husbands and to follow on with traditional values. Females growing up in patriarchal households learnt from infancy that they were expected to play certain gender roles, and to challenge male authority ... ...

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