LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:5 May 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Shakespeare’s Heroines:
Women of Valour with Perfect Womanhood and Magic Spell

V. Manikandan, Ph.D. Scholar (PT)

Abstract

This paper throws light on Shakespeare’s heroines as women endowed with perfect womanhood and magic spell. Shakespeare was a man who was fully aware of the powers of life and human fellowship, some of them more evil-natured and conscious than the divine. In Shakespeare’s work, he appears as a feminist in the treatment of women, who testifies for being an ardent supporter of women. Although Shakespeare is programmed like modern feminists, his heroines dominate the play’s actions. Shakespeare’s women characters show a rare kind of valour. They are all embodied in their refreshing perennial emotions.

Keywords: Shakespeare mystery, Womanhood, ambition, valour, emotions.

The study of Shakespeare is a boon to any student of literature, for Shakespeare lies immortal in the annals of English literature. Thinking about this immortal legend, all join together in crying with one voice, “Oh! What a dramatist!” because no dramatist is held in such high esteem and no one stands on par with him, what a glowing tribute Ben Jonson does pay to William Shakespeare, the legend? And as Ben Jonson himself says, Shakespeare’s genius is unsurpassed and his greatness as a dramatist is ever lasting. No doubt, Shakespeare stands peerless in all English literature, nay, in the literature of the whole world. As Laxmikant Mohan puts it, “Things become old and worn out with age and usage, but with the passage of time and thought, Shakespeare is growing younger and even brighter-surely a paradoxical phenomenon worth studying” (P XIII).

Shakespeare was the man who cared more for life and humane fellowship fully conscious of the powers, some beneficent, some evil and conscious above all, of the Divinity that shapes our ends. Commenting on the mystery of Shakespeare’s relation to his work, Allardyce Nicoll remarks thus:

“…. just as God in relation to human beings Is both immanent and transcendent, so the poet is imminent and transcendent in relation to the characters of his imagination. We sense Shakespeare’s presence beyond

The reach of reason and nevertheless potently appreciated; and at the same time, we feel his vitality and strength identified with and expressing itself through the individual characters” (P 63).

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V. Manikandan, Ph.D. Scholar (PT)
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai -21
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