Two Noble Kinsmen

Two Noble Kinsmen Why do you think Shakespeare has all the other characters in the play treat the jailer's daughter the way they do? How is the jailer's daughter commodified by the jailer? What is the reason the jailer's daughter goes mad? In the play the Jailer's daughter is treated as an object to trade. Shakespeare may be using this extreme example to get men to stop thinking of women as an object to own …

…It is a reflection of Palamon's and Arcite's view of Emilia as an object. Shakespeare has artfully blended the comedy of the jailer's daughter object with the tragedy of the Emilia object and in so doing has magnified his point. Shakespeare has dramatized how men make objects of women. Perhaps one of his motives was to get the men of his day to realize that they treat women as objects and that they should not.