Women's discourse of power in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

By Anwar Elsharkawy

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: M.A, course: Discourse Analysis, language: English, abstract: Women in "Macbeth" (i.e., Lady Macbeth and the Witches) speak a strange language that is very similar to what women seek today. This language can be described as antilanguage: a language by which women can direct, control, and dominate men. This paper introduces a contradictory statement to the current views in discourse analysis, which indicate that women are powerless, trivial, dominated, and sexual objects (Andersen, 1988, Chaika, 1982; Lakoff, 1975) by showing women as powerful, serious, and dominating as men. In doing so, it focuses on the recent views of discourse, power, and women, taking Shakespeare's "Macbeth" as a field of application by analyzing Lady Macbeth's turns of talk.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3668350469
• ISBN13: 9783668350465
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"