Title: ‘Vanity (Frailty), Thy Name Is Woman’ - How Women Look For Power In All The Wrong Places|Uncle Guido's Facts
Headings: ‘Vanity (Frailty), Thy Name Is Woman’ - How Women Look For Power In All The Wrong Places
Sunday, July 5, 2015
‘Vanity (Frailty), Thy Name Is Woman’ - How Women Look For Power In All The Wrong Places

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Christina Mannon in O’Neill’s grand guignol Mourning Becomes Electra murders everyone in her way. Mary Tyrone rules the roost in Long Day’s Journey Into Night and destroys the men in her family not through aggression, but passivity. Edmund, James, and James Jr. are her hostages as she plays depression and addiction to her advantage. “ Quiet”, says James, “Your mother is trying to sleep”. He tiptoes around the unspeakable subject of her supposed dependency, and defers to his wife’s hysterical manipulation of the family. www.doctormacro.com
The question of how Shakespeare’s ‘frailty’ got transposed into ‘vanity’ is an unanswered question. Some have suggested that Dante Gabriel Rossetti is responsible: Shakespeare never wrote the line "Vanity, thy name is woman." Hamlet's line reads, "Frailty, thy name is woman," in relation to his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius after the King's death. But upon looking at Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Lady Lilith, it is impossible not to conjure up Shakespeare's misquoted line.