Romeo And Juliet Women Roles

In Elizabethan times, women were considered as less important than men, no matter what class structure you grew up in. Women were required to listen and obey male relatives: “Elizabethan women were subservient to men” (http://m.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-women.htm). This is exemplified in Romeo and Juliet when Juliet has to obey her father’s commands by marrying Count Paris. Furthermore, Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, restricts her from communicating with the Montagues because the two families are huge rivals. Juliet loves Romeo even though he is a Montague; however, she cannot let her parents know she loves him and married him. “Elizabethan women were totally dominated by the male members of their family” which exemplifies the women

Throughout Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, there is an overlaying presence of the typical roles that men and women were supposed to play. During Elizabethan times there was a major difference between the way men and women were supposed to act. Men typically were supposed to be masculine and powerful, and defend the honor. Women, on the other hand, were supposed to be subservient to their men in their lives and do as ever they wished. In Romeo and Juliet the typical gender roles that men and women were supposed to play had an influence on the fate of their lives.

Others have asserted that the roles of women in his plays were prominent for the time and culture that he lived in,his intent in creating characters to inspire much controversy. Two works, Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night, stand out particularly well in regards to Shakespeare's use of female characters. If you could examine these two plays, you would see that Shakespeare, though conforming to contemporary attitudes of women, circumvented them by creating resolute female characters with a strong sense of self.

In the Elizabethan Era, gender roles were something that people would try to break, even if their life was on the line. We can see this from the play, Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet disobeys her father when she is told to marry someone who she doesn’t like. In this era, Juliet, as a women, would usually be married off to someone and would not get to choose. However, she finds a man named Romeo, who is from the rivaled clan, and runs off to marry him even though she knows both of them could die. Juliet could die from disobeying her father where Romeo could get killed for trying to be with the rivaled clan.

Maggie Coviello Jaime Jordan English 242 10/27/14 Shakespeare is known for a multitude of things; His ability to make a play both funny and dramatic, his compelling and complex story lines, his multi-dimensional characters and last but not least, his strong female leads. Some of his female characters are celebrated to this day for being original and fierce in their convictions. One thing that makes his female leads really stand out is the fact that they were created in a time when patriarchy and female submission were norms among society. They challenged gender norms, and though he was not the first to write such strong female characters, he was one of the most widely recognized playwrights of that time.

William Shakespeare, in his play Romeo and Juliet, portrayed two young individuals trapped in the times when freedom to choose personal destinies was highly restricted. They lived in a very patriarchal environment, where women had no chance to experience youth, and men were expected to resolve conflicts with swords instead of words. Romeo and Juliet did not resonate with the expectations pressured upon them. The couple was quite unique compared to the others surrounding them – Romeo was not too interested in proving his manhood, and Juliet was not just a passive female figure accepting everything that was thrown her way. Juliet possessed some masculine characteristics, whereas Romeo was more feminine than it was acceptable back then. Possibly,

Early Feminist Ideals There is controversy over Shakespeare’s feminist ideals in his play Romeo and Juliet. Some believe Shakespeare speaks with low respect towards women, much as they did during the late 1500s, and some believe that he was beginning to change the ways that women were portrayed to society. After reading Romeo and Juliet, one may start to believe that he tested early acts of feminism. Shakespeare shows an important shift of how women are portrayed through his character Juliet, as she played a dominant role in her and Romeo’s relationship, when she disobeyed her parents, and when she commits to doing bold actions.

In the play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” written by Shakespeare The males in the story are more dramatic than females because the wives of the men seem to want to hold back and not fight, but the men just keep adding to the feud. The men are always wanting to fight and yell and be mad while the ladies and trying to stop it all.Male characters are more aggressive then females. The female shows they are less aggressive in Act one Scene one when Lady Montague says " Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe." In line 70 In addition to fighting they have many decisions to face. The males in the story show both sides of what a man can be, they can be peaceful and aggressive.In lines 55-59 in act one scene one Benvolio says, " Part, fools!

Today’s society is complicated, with the struggle for women’s rights and men abusing their authority. However, Shakespeare saw women as a gift and that women add to the ambience of the overall play. A great example lies with Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth.” Lady Macbeth portrays a character that is ambitious, evil, but has a conscience, and is willing to accomplish a goal no matter the cost. Women in Shakespeare’s plays are complete and have their own roles; not being subordinates to the men who are in lead roles.

Romeo and Juliet is a very well known love story and was written by an English poet William Shakespeare in 1596. This story talks about two young lovers who were forbidden to love because of their family rivals. The rivalry between them caused the two families to butt heads constantly. Although they butted heads Romeo and Juliet managed to fall in love with each other. These two young lovers had to keep their love life secret because of the consequences that could happen.

Long ago, women were considered to be a weaker sexe, and were expected to obey their husbands. The upper classes arranged marriages for their Daughters,which often married very young.shakespeare kept and challenged the weaker sexe stereotype in all his female characters, found in “Romeo and Juliet”, where women were objects in men’s eyes, resulting in a specific stereotypical expectation regarding women in the play,which reminded us that the character of juliet did in fact ignore all of those superstition, by rebelling against her family, with all that in mind, brings us to talk about the role of women in “Romeo and Juliet”. Throughout the play, men had the upper hand when it came to the relationship and women were considered a conquest for

Shakespeare certainly redefines the role of womanliness through his female characters challenging the stereotypes of his own society. Through the character of Juliet influences his readers to questions their own perspective about gender issues during the Elizabethan time. For example, Romeo on Romeo and Juliet questions his own sexuality and the role that he plays in their relationship. He says, “O sweet Juliet, /Thy beauty hath made me effeminate/ And in my temper softened valor's steel!

Author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”. When one thinks of comic books, it is very likely that the subjects that come to mind are Marvel’s Spiderman or DC’s Batman. Although comic books are stereotypically thought to be mainly about super heroes, there are a wide variety of subject matter they could be written about, such as romance. In the 1950s – 1960s, it was common for these romance comics to exploit the social norms of that time and emphasized the subject of gender roles. While the men in comic books were usually illustrated in a brave heroic manner, the women would be portrayed to be what would now be considered a stereotypical “trophy wife”. As a young child reading these comics and taking in these images, they are slowly molding their ideals to believe that what they are reading and seeing is what is accepted and normal in their society. By coding gender norms into the texts, authors are helping mold the ideology of its readers to believe that it is acceptable for both genders to follow specific rules that accommodate to the believed social norms of the time.

William Shakespeare wrote the tragedy Romeo and Juliet in sixteenth-century England, though it takes place in fourteenth-century Italy. The play follows the lives of two children from rivaling families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet should never have met, but when Romeo sneaked into the Capulet feast, his eyes laid on Juliet, and he immediately found her the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Juliet thought the same of Romeo, and the two stole away to get a bit of time alone. Social norms, family expectations, and personal will all factored into Romeo and Juliet’s relationship choices.

Shakespeare’s works had few females because women were not allowed to act in London in the late 1500’s into the early 1600’s. He however disregarded the standards that were imposed on women of this time. Shakespeare created these daring, strong-willed, quick witted female characters that went against the norm of society. Shakespeare lived during a time person in which the world was essentially male dominated, women weren’t their own people. They were objects that had no freedom to do what they wanted, they followed the rules set by their fathers, brothers, or husbands. He created this almost heroine like character when heroine like women were frowned upon, he broke away from what was expected. He in a way let these female characters have a