Compare and contrast the presentation of the female voice in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife, examining the view that “Gender is not something that one is, it is something that one does, an act…a doing rather than a being”. (Judith Butler). I need help on Twelfth Night more than Duffy. I’d like to include a couple of references to literary or Flemish critics in relation to Twelfth Night. some of the themes I’ve been working with re the Duffy poetry have been to do with the objectification of women…Duffy reverses this and has the women objectify the men thus showing that this usually male behaviour is an act, not an inherent male characteristic.
