... to compel his daughter to comply with his wish that she marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. Egeus doesn't choose the court on a whim; rather, he is hopeful that by taking Hermia to the literal and symbolic seat of the highest authority of the land, she will recognize and honor masculine authority and, by extension, will comply with traditional gender roles, which dictated that a woman ... , she asks Cesario to marry her, without waiting for any proposal from any other man. Viola, also a woman of privilege, uses similar tactics to achieve similar ends. When the ship she i...

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