Examine how Proserpina’s metamorphosis became an escape mechanism of her sexual assault and how she transformed and mirrored her rapist’s identity.

My study will examine how rape is a metamorphosis – the loss of virginity, the theft of innocence and the psychological change one endures. Rape and sexual assault are without a doubt the most disputable and defying topic of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It is a definitive manifestation of male power/force in the poem and the several changes and transformations that take place are frequently the methods for escaping it. Examine how Proserpina’s metamorphosis became an escape mechanism of her sexual assault and how she transformed and mirrored her rapist’s identity.