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Programação & Caderno de Resumosuniverse, which he sees as something always unstable andmysterious. He does not seem to believe that women have torenounce what makes them so different from men to have a fullagency in Somali society. On the contrary, he represents thespace of the feminine as a world more full of meanings than thedomain of the masculine. In his novels women are generallyseen as knowing some realities that are almost not accessibleto men. This makes them able to act in more powerful and effectiveways to restore peace in the country after so many years of warand destruction. This paper aims to delineate some of the maindeveloping lines among Farah’s diverse female characters, showingthat there has been an increase in their possibilities of actionfrom the first (Ebla) to the latest (Cambara). They leave a positionas helpless victims of men to assume the role of important changingagents in Somali contemporary society.The Absolution of Lady MacbethDolores Aronovich Aguero (UFSC)Several readers and spectators have a tendency to believethat Lady Macbeth is a greater villain than her husband inShakespeare’s playtext, although she does not actually murderanybody. Moreover, she becomes insane with guilt after orchestratingDuncan’s death, and this drives her to suicide. R. A. Foakesaffirms that she is not herself from the famous scene when sheasks spirits to “unsex” her until she faints, or pretends to faint,after Duncan’s murder is revealed. According to Foakes, her collapse“visually dramatizes her weakness, and confirms that she cannotsustain her attempt to be manly, and is after all no more thana woman in a man’s world” (156). In my essay, I will analyzeLady Macbeth in two films, Roman Polanski’s Macbeth (1971)and William Reilly’s Men of Respect (1991). In Polanski’s celebratedfilm, a young and fragile Lady Macbeth appears nude in thesleepwalking scene, something critics associate with its beinga Playboy production. However, that moment, much more thangratuitous or erotic, is a sign of the Lady’s vulnerability. In Menof Respect, an appropriation which does not use Shakespare’slanguage but updates the action to the Mafia in the 1990s, LadyMacbeth (called Ruthie) is much stronger. Apparently, she hashad an abortion so her motherhood would not stop her husband’s252