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Elizabethan Women Research Paper

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What do the Elizabethan period and our contemporary society have in common? When you consider all those moments in history they can be vastly different. However when considering the role of women in society and the expectations we cast on them, how different are they really. Today I will be exploring the role of women in society influenced through the media and by the ability to work, and questioning whether it has become better or worse over time. This theme is explored throughout Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

The role of women in society has evolved through the ability for women to work in the same job forces as men. For many centuries a woman was expected to live for the role of a housewife. Her only purpose was to tend for her family, …show more content…

Women can now work in businesses, or as tradies, and can even hold executive positions in major companies. We now have more choices. Gender equality has become more present in todays society and woman are now respected for being strong, and independent. These changes have provided new and exciting career opportunities for woman, however it has increased our responsibilities and expectations, both personally and by …show more content…

What does the media tell us about women? It tells us what is “most important” and that’s how we look. They surround us with images of ideal female beauty. We have been learning from such an early age, that we must spend our time to strive to be like the women in these images and to feel ashamed and guilty if we cant live up to these incredibly unrealistic expectations. But failure is inevitable, when the women we are being shown are photo shopped and airbrushed to seem thinner, with faces so flawless that there is not a wrinkle or a line to be seen. This idea of beauty that society is showing us is so edited that it can’t be achieved. Not even the women in these images we are being shown look like this. The media is beginning to dictate our lives, influencing our thoughts, opinions, and actions. Through this use of magazines, advertisements, and social media, we are being shown by society what we need to look like in order to be beautiful. Society challenges women to be strong and independent, by showing us that in order to be seen as the ideal female we have to look like a woman that has been altered with on a computer for hours until she doesn’t even look like

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