Thursday, October 13, 2011

Hermione's Symbol: The Phenominal Woman

Create a symbol for Hermione. Why does your symbol represent her? Write a short description of your symbol.


Hermione represents the phenomenal woman. She is bold, she is a ray of hope, Innocent to the evil thrown at her and loves her children and wants only the best. The phenomenal woman stands in the face of wrong and states what is right. In the case of Hermione, she tells her husband of her innocence in his mistaken perception of her committing cuckoldry. She rises to the challenge of what most Shakespearean women refused to do  which was prove themselves above the submissive role they played in society. The phenomenal Woman loves her children; Hermione loves both her children and thus faints and dies upon learning the death of her son and the banishment of her daughter. She however in death reaches out and gives her nameless daughter at the time the name of Perdita to Antigonus in a dream. This shows despite all odds she goes great lengths to give her child an identity. Queen Hermione is indeed the symbol of the Phenomenal Woman.

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