A spontaneous generation occurs when a species does not need the opposite sex to reproduce. The need for reproduction enables the species to get pregnant solely. Coupled with the idea of a Dead Zone, a place where life can not logically reproduce due to lack of both sexes, such a concept can offer an idealogical answer to sexual reproduction. According to Professor Little, "Coriolanus's embodies tragedy comes from him thinking he could birth himself." He believes he can achieve a spontaneous generation by solely achieving his overly-masculine murderous intentions while neglecting the feminine qualities that enable life.
Other concepts that fit into this idea of masculine sterility are the root meaning of the word nothing which originally referred to a "woman's reproductive organs" and the original meaning of orgasm which mean "death." Both these concepts attribute sexuality with producing death implying a perversion of reproduction.
Heather Farley-Rushworth
Section 1A
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