Use Of Silence And Speech In Ovid's Writings

I agree that Ovid uses silence and speech throughout his writings in order to display action and emotion. However, I did not take Io’s silence in this segment of the story as a sexual or lustful desire. I believe that Jove turned himself into a bull in order to woo over this girl because she would not have approached him otherwise. I acknowledge that she was attracted to this magnificent bull, however I do not think she wanted to be kidnapped and taken from her homeland, especially under Jove’s deception. I think that her silence her is meant to show the inferiority of people and especially women and how people, in the gods’ eyes, have no right or power to speak out against them. Maybe I just saw this story in a different light, but I think