Significance of Unheard Voices in Shakespeare'sJulius Caesar

Abstract

This dissertation does the comprehensive study on William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to denounce the asymmetrical nexus of masculine and feminine characters in the lime light of French Feminism. Furthermore, it destabilizes the hither to myths of male supremacy created and adopted to dethrone the terrestrial reality of female existence in the name of inessential being and the second sex. Moreover, it interrogates the treacherous tendency and satanic nature of male hegemony thereby vindicating the indispensable role of female agency for the establishment of peace and harmony. In the play, the extermination and deprivation of female voices from the mainstream domestic, cultural, and even political affairs, ultimately proves fatal and self-destructive for the male characters themselves. Albeit, at a glance, the frequent emergence offer male resistance and counter-resistance seem insignificant due to the parochial mindset of patriarchal vanity, at the end, it validates own existence and succeeds in legitimizing female voice as the voice of divine authority.