A Way of Thinking Human Bodies that are Detachable: The Burgeoning Concept of Cyborg in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
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In Troilus and Cressida hybrid/bastard metaphor is employed to efface species boundaries. This study examines the extent to which Troilus's sleeve— originally symbolizing a detachable arm of his own entity as a love token, and yet representing transhumanist aspiration—helps constitute himself as a cyborg. Shakespeare dramatizes a cyborg as an apocalyptic kind of transformation—machine-like warrior—in Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Henry V. Those studies put forward the view that there are dangers concerning becoming posthuman. Shakespeare shows what kinds of reactions against posthuman ideas, or anxiety about this transformation, come from society and the body. The posthuman characters are defined only by the feature of bastardy and their relevance to the sexual disease. In this present study, I argue that such posthuman aspiration is not realized in a way to gain immortality or to remove his/her vulnerabilities, but to fulfill the protagonist’s sexual desire - so it only results in bastardity. Shakespeare’s dramatization of posthuman aspiration helps us to understand our current conceptualization of posthuman and cyborg.
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In Troilus and Cressida hybrid/bastard metaphor is employed to efface species boundaries. This study examines the extent to which Troilus's sleeve— originally symbolizing a detachable arm of his own entity as a love token, and yet representing transhumanist aspiration—helps constitute himself as a cyborg. Shakespeare dramatizes a cyborg as an apocalyptic kind of transformation—machine-like warrior—in Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Henry V. Those studies put forward the view that there are dangers concerning becoming posthuman. Shakespeare shows what kinds of reactions against posthuman ideas, or anxiety about this transformation, come from society and the body. The posthuman characters are defined only by the feature of bastardy and their relevance to the sexual disease. In this present study, I argue that such posthuman aspiration is not realized in a way to gain immortality or to remove his/her vulnerabilities, but to fulfill the protagonist’s sexual desire - so it only results in bastardity. Shakespeare’s dramatization of posthuman aspiration helps us to understand our current conceptualization of posthuman and cyborg.
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