Essay Archive - Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
One of the most powerful nuances of any writing is the dialogue within
the story. In literature, it is all too often that characters live only in
the jaded voice of the author and never truly develop as their own, or are
not strongly opinionated in a manner which contrasts the opinions of the
writer. It is also unfortunately true that the women depicted in most male-
authored literature do not often sound realistic, or how most women one
would speak to in the course of the day tend to sound. All too often, women
are depicted on a lower level of speech than men. For instance, D....
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