Problematizing the Renaissance Selfhood: A Culture War Between Individualism and Communal Values in Titus Andronicus
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William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus delves deep into the notions of early modern subjectivity built around individuality and its conflict with communal norms. I explicate how the notion of individuality claimed in Elizabethan England was a realm specifically limited to the upper-class men. The way in which the Roman patrician, Titus Andronicus, asserts his identity gives insight to how early modern elite men employed institutional and ideological means to maintain superiority and to delimit social inferiors. Accordingly, public values strongly identified by Titus illustrate that the claims of supremacy based on honor and patriarchal power function at the expense of limiting female subjectivity to sexuality, and labeling racial others with savagery. As the tragedy of Titus Andronicus testifies, however, these ideologies are established to compensate for the male elite’s own anxieties regarding identity and power. I hence demonstrate that the individualism much lauded in Shakespeare’s time was not only inseparable from communal identity, but also self-contradictory and destructive of society.
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William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus delves deep into the notions of early modern subjectivity built around individuality and its conflict with communal norms. I explicate how the notion of individuality claimed in Elizabethan England was a realm specifically limited to the upper-class men. The way in which the Roman patrician, Titus Andronicus, asserts his identity gives insight to how early modern elite men employed institutional and ideological means to maintain superiority and to delimit social inferiors. Accordingly, public values strongly identified by Titus illustrate that the claims of supremacy based on honor and patriarchal power function at the expense of limiting female subjectivity to sexuality, and labeling racial others with savagery. As the tragedy of Titus Andronicus testifies, however, these ideologies are established to compensate for the male elite’s own anxieties regarding identity and power. I hence demonstrate that the individualism much lauded in Shakespeare’s time was not only inseparable from communal identity, but also self-contradictory and destructive of society.
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