DIVERGING REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES

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Year-Number: 2021-Cilt 6 Sayı 23
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Number of pages: 275-281
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William Shakespeare, trajedilerinde ve komedilerinde kadın cinsiyet rollerini farklı açılardan ele almıştır. Trajedilerinde genellikle toplumsal cinsiyet rollerini geleneksel bir bakış açısıyla değerlendirirken, komedilerinde, toplumsal cinsiyet rollerini yıkıcı ve eleştirel yollardan incelemiştir. Bu nedenle, bu makalenin amacı, Shakespeare'in komedilerinin geleneksel cinsiyet klişelerine meydan okurken, trajedilerinin onları nasıl pekiştirme eğiliminde olduğunu göstermektir. Shakespeare’in komedileri, geleneksel cinsiyet rollerini eleştirirken ya da onlarla dalga geçerken, Shakespeare'in trajedilerinde geleneksel cinsiyet klişelerini gün ışığına çıkarma eğilimi vardır. Onları ciddiye almak ya da hafife almak, bir oyunu trajedi ya da komedi yapan ana unsurdur, çünkü bunlar oyundaki olay örgüsünün gelişiminde doğrudan etkilidirler. Othello, Macbeth ve Hamlet'te kadının rolleri, geleneksel zihniyete göre yansıtılır ve belirli çizgilerle keskin bir şekilde tanımlanır. Öte yandan, On İkinci Gece, Size Nasıl Geliyorsa, ve Aşkın Çabası Boşuna’da kadınsı roller gizlenir veya belirsiz hale getirilir.

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William Shakespeare dealt with female gender roles from very different perspectives in his tragedies and comedies. While he generally evaluated gender roles from a traditional point of view in his tragedies, he examined them in subversive and critical ways in his comedies. Thus, the purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how Shakespeare’s comedies challenge traditional gender stereotypes, while his tragedies tend to reinforce them. In Shakespeare’s tragedies, there is a tendency to bring traditional feminine gender stereotypes to light while his comedies criticize or make fun of them. Taking them seriously or lightly is the main element that makes a play a tragedy or a comedy since they are directly influential in the development of plot in the play. In Othello, Macbeth, and Hamlet, the roles of women are reflected in line with the traditional mentality and they are defined in a clear and consistent manner. On the other hand, in Twelfth Night, As You Like It and Love’s Labour’s Lost, feminine roles are concealed or made ambiguous.

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