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Women's Tabooed Desire in Patriarchal Society: English Renaissance and Ovidian Narrative Poems

Men's inner problems and set of values are projected on the story of myth, because men have personified natural phenomena as a living relationship between gods and men in life. Tabooed desire of gods and men in Greek and Roman myth story of Ovid's Metamorphoses shows psychological phenomena of patriarchal, male-centered society. English Renaissance Ovidian narrative poems emphasize not only patriarchal values but also physical features disrupting sexual difference by taking mystical motifs away from Metamorphoses. However, females of early modern English Ovidian poems don't rationalize their tabooed desire like females in Metamorphoses. They just feel confused about their own desire because of patriarchal values operating in them while males in the poems openly express their tabooed desire blaming the females who denied their tabooed sexual demands. This less autonomous psychology of women than females in Metamorphoses indicates that in 16th century England where traditional social and economic roles were sloughed off by Renaissance movement, patriarchal English Renaissance ironically depended on the female other in order to be autonomous subject because male's ontological fears about the transformation of the self fixated primarily on gender difference.