Article
Spanish
ID: <
oai:doaj.org/article:3cacc74f630046dcaa6d37d88d88fa75>
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DOI: <
10.15517/rk.v39i3.24204>
Abstract
This article gives a reading of the apparent reasons that are hidden after silence and silencing of Casandra’s mythic character in the Esquilo tragedy, the Agamenón and in the Trojanas of Euripides. Silence may present various conventions and functions, their absence from speech may show a strategy, choice or taxation as a non-verbal form of communication. The fundamental difference between the two arises in the interpretation and decoding of silence and its function through the signs in the literary text. The silencing of Casandra is a form of violence against women which forced her to live in isolation in a society that condemned her to symbolic silence.