Characters fail to reach their full potential of their self as defined by social or domestic expectations unexpectedly due to the destruction forced on them by both their society and of their family. ... Yet societal and domestic expectations of Lavinia and Cordelia are tarnished when they both are subjected to wrongdoings from the political and physical views and wrongdoings. Both plays the female characters to a kind of spoken suppression, which I will argue, leads to suffering and ultimately to their deaths: Lavinia will be physically tortured and is killed by the hands of her own father (f...

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