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Case: You will explore how "The Lady of Shalot" and the character Ophelia from Hamlet represent women who are bound to and reminded of their social duty, but chose to pursue love. Both women die as a result of love that they never get to fully experience. Analyze and evaluate Waterhouse's artistic interpretation of 'women who are bound to and reminded of their social duty, but chose to pursue love'. Review the allusions made in Hamlet to determine whether they reveal bias on the author's part as a whole.
1) Write a paragraph explaining what you have analyzed and examined. Explore the following questions in your paragraph:
oTo what degree to the women in Shakespearean drama conform to the seventeenth century European notion that women should be silent, chaste and obedient?
oWhat might their behavior suggest about Shakespeare's attitude toward women?
2) Below your first paragraph, reflect and examine your own writing for any bias and to determine whether your language and ideas are inclusive and appropriate. Explore the following questions in your paragraph:
o What does your writing reveal about your cultural background and expectations?
o Does your writing assume that the social reality of your life is also that of other members in our community, your country, and your world at large?
o Is power between genders or ethnicities an issue in any relationships you describe in your writing, either obviously or in any underlying way? If so, how have you depicted it?