Wow Facts Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
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Judith Butler’s Performativity on Gender
A
Women’s defiance of the roles prescribed to them exposes how gender identity is not innate but socially constructed.
2
Q
Temporal Compression
A
Compressing the play into 5 suspenseful days
3
Q
Climatic Centrality
A
Mercutio’s death marks the exact midpoint of the play - tonal trajectory of the play towards a tragic ending.
4
Q
Freud’s Theory of Thanatos
A
Unconscious drive towards death - self destructive tendencies
5
Q
Proleptic Prologue
A
dramatic irony - breaks the conventional suspense
