“Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” -G.D Anderson
Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of equality of the sexes. It’s difficult to do a feminism, critical essay based on the fact that it only became popular within the past 30 years while Titus Andronicus was first published in 1623. Many of the truths in Titus Andronicus are undiscovered based on the fact that feminism over Tamora hasn’t really been researched. Tamora is the queen of the Goths as well as Roman Empress. Tamora is angered based on Titus ritually sacrificing her oldest son so to get back at Titus she uses her looks as well as her ability to manipulating people make Titus and his whole family for that matter to suffer and for that suffering to last as long as it possibly can. Tamora is a very powerful women and you learn how powerful and evil she really can be. First, we can start out with how Shakespeare made it to where the females in the reading of Titus were meant to “Serve the construction of Titus” (Douglas E. Green 1) so right then and there we get the feeling that the male characters…show more content… The men in the play of Titus Andronicus just seem like they are smarter and have more power in just about every situation that pops up which makes the female characters pretty useless to the story. Most of the readings I have read over feminism in Titus focus on how the female characters relate to the male characters and not actual feminism itself. I don’t think many people really targeted feminism in Shakespeare since it’s so hard to interrupt as it is trying to take a feminism look on it with a limited amount of female characters gets difficult. Although the research is fairly limited there are some key things that stick out when you read up on the character
