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...Unsex Me Here! By GISELLE BARCIA, BRIGIT M. HELGEN, and JILLIAN K. SWENCIONIS Friday, February 16, 2007 Both in print and in conversation, the discussion of this huge event has veered away from substantive issues about Faust’s vision for the University; instead it has had a remarkably narrow focus: gender...
...compete with men--pay attention, Pat Buchanan--Harvard explodes the myth. But every Harvard man, and woman for that matter, will have to decide how womanly such ambitious females are. After all, wasn't it the Hillary Clinton who proclaimed, "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here?" Look where...
When Lady Macbeth wished to fight, to help her husband seize the throne, she said to the spirits above "Unsex me here." Today, a woman need not be unsexed, need not be masculinized in order to exhibit qualities of assertion and aggressiveness. No, we are not sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should...
...comedies, women are speaking," Gilligan said. "In the tragedies, they go mad (Hamlet), they're strangled (Othello), they unsex themselves (Macbeth) or they say nothing (King Lear...
...Macbeth is easily the most gripping portrait of the evening. Bloom takes us through the stages of her disintegration. She sinks to the floor, wanders the stage, pulls at her hair, wrings her hands, looks wild, childish, ravaged, lost. Her soliloquoy "Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thought, unsex me here" is viscerally delivered, its cruel fervor made apparent. Bloom's composite of Macbeth is unusually harsh. In leaving out the "tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquoy--cutting right after "she should have died hereafter;/ There would have been a time for such a word"--Bloom's Macbeth appears...