Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters – In Between Outlandish Womanhood and Prophesing Moirae

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Published: Dec 20, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2017-0021
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renegade women peripherality otherness dichotomy gender

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Simona Catrinel Avarvarei
Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Iasi, Romania

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This study intends to map the meandering expression of otherness when womanhood constructs an epiphanic encounter with time and fortune. Hereinafter, hegemonic, oppressive masculinity meets peripheral, prophesying femininity in an intricate exercise of doing and becoming Shakespeare‘s Weird Sisters, forming a complex mythological construction, whose uniqueness arises from the duality of their personae, reflection of displaced femininity, somewhat grotesque, peripheral within the realm of marginality itself. They are not only weird expressions of the Other, they are the other self of themselves, as alter ego expressions. There is a constant, minutely woven border crossing that does not only (re)define the geometry of becoming, but it also permeates gender constructions, making femaleness look androgynous and ruthless. Foretelling dreams of glory, mightiness or summoning lost humanity, these three Parcae rewrite the myth of the androgynous and its story about the quest of the Other. It is this Other that will be explored from a variety of angles that speak of masculinity, femininity, sanity, irrationality, consciousness, unconsciousness, freewill and fate.

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Avarvarei, S. C. “Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters – In Between Outlandish Womanhood and Prophesing Moirae”. Linguaculture, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2017, pp. 107-1, doi:10.1515/lincu-2017-0021.
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Simona Catrinel Avarvarei, Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Iasi, Romania

Simona Catrinel Avarvarei holds a PhD in Philology following the defense of the thesis Mapping the territories of the hidden Victorian female self. She teaches English for Specific Purposes at the Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Iasi, Romania. She has translated books of political theory and literature and she has published a series of articleson a range of authors and topics, with a special interest in British literature and a constant focus on the nineteenth century British novel. Her fields of interest focus on gender studies,transculturalism and identity construction.

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