The theme of the abandoned woman in the mythical Greek-Roman stories reoccurs a figure of the heroine who fell in love with a stranger, it helps him in a difficult task, being somewhat less than the duties that bind the family and their homeland; then follows it, often far away, only to be betrayed and abandoned. In the …show more content…
Lawerence Lipking makes a reference to Donna Elvira in his book Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition: “Most of us know little about being heroes, about exercising power without conscience, debauching multitudes, and forcing the devil himself to take an interest in our doing. But most of us do know something about feeling lost and lonely. Donna Elvira speaks for those feelings”. Abandonment is absolute powerlessness and absolute freedom. Elvira encompasses these feelings and emotions and I plan to study her character as a three dimensional strong woman and not as some portray her as just a woman who has gone mad because a man abandoned