Romeo And Julia

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Sparagmos is the act of rending, tearing apart and mangling present in the worship of Dionysus and, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare, Julia’s decision to rip Proteus’ letter apart may call for a reconsideration of how important Shakespeare’s theatrical objects really are. Employing ideas of ancient Greek ritual—too frequently dismissed as hedonistic, foreign or frightening by puritanical thought—this essay connects the activity of writing a love letter by hand amid sixteenth century England to the performative dimensions of Julia’s ephemeral (ostentatious and insincere) rebellion in the face of a very traditional method for courtship. Taking as a starting premise that Shakespeare’s comedic scenes must themselves be studied as possible methods for subversion, this essay asks why, for example, does Julia tear up Proteus’ letter? Maligned in …show more content…
If Julia tore up Proteus’ love letter to dismiss him completely, her rejection by the audience is inevitable in that Elizabethan rites assert that a female lover should not behave in an unruly manner or disrespect a man. Julia’s rebellious action, therefore, cannot continue on stage, a setting that is familiar and real, because, from a symbolic point of view, the importance of the love letter and Julia’s acceptance of it, like the admired archetype of a docile female lover, is caused and produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally. This naturally induced synesthesia is important to consider in that Shakespeare’s eyes can allow him to notice artificiality and, at the same time, stimulate Julia’s hands to conjure up an image of Elizabethan romance’s linear and artificial plot
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