Submitted by ptrainor on Monday, June 5, 2006 - 5:41am

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Patrick Trainor

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Journal 11

Journal #11

The book Self-Made Man in the first section has been kind of boring to me since as a man I live through all the stuff that she is talking about as far as manhood is concerned. I don’t necessarily see the point of doing this experiment without it being legitimate research. I did, however, enjoy the two quotes from Shakespeare that preface the book. The quotes from Twelfth Night and As You Like it were very appropriate since both of those plays involve gender bending because of female characters taking the disguise of male characters. As a result bizarre romantic entanglements ensue such as in the case of Twelfth Night in which Viola (disguised as Sebastian) is in love with Duke Orsino, who is courting Olivia, who is in love with Sebastian (who is really Viola).

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