- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quotation occurs just before José Navidad rapes América. Navidad’s brutal, casual attitude marks him out as the novel’s clear antagonist. Furthermore, the language of this quotation clearly demonstrates the dehumanizing nature of sexual violence against women. Navidad wholly objectifies América—she becomes like a “stool in a bar,” so much less than human that she is like a physical object. Additionally, América notes how José penetrates her with his fingers “as if they belonged there,” showing that Navidad is exerting a proprietary power over América, as if he has an inherent claim to her body because he is a man…