The Roaring Girl Analysis

The play The Roaring Girl is a fictional drama of the life of Mary Flirth, who is known as Moll captured in the play. Sir Alex Wengrave, who is the father to Sebastian, denies his son to marry Mary Fitzallard alleging that her dowry is not enough (Royal Shakespeare Company 4). Sebastian retaliates through pretending to be in love with Moll, who is branded as a notorious thief. Sebastian’s aim is to have his father prefer Mary over Moll and consequently accept their marriage. The dominant character in this play is a lady named Moll Fith. The distinguishing feature of this lady is that she wanders in London in male attire. Moll chooses not to hide her identity as a lady and clearly presents herself as a lady in men’s clothing. Moll arouses quest for people to reunite her sexual inconsistencies, and she ignites societal and sexual anxieties in the society presented in the play. The Society’s efforts to evaluate the identity of Moll in male clothes …show more content…
Moll is brought out as the major victim of sexual slander clearly. When Sir Alexander refers Moll as a blazing star, she goes ahead to defend herself against all the accusations that threaten to tarnish her name. Moll defends herself saying that there many more ladies who are whores in small ruffs while others have their names filled in the slander books. The Renaissance scholars usually consider slander as a consequence of tumbled sedition willpower. The slander is also linked to tumbled charity efforts, sinful arrogance, fury, and the condition of being desperate (Digangi). The Renaissance writers further display slander as a form of projection that may be conscious or unconscious. In the play The Roaring Girl, Moll serves as the scapegoat where those laying blames on her project their fears, wants and their apprehensions. The vulgar mouths of the domain slander Moll by terming her as both a whore and a