Gender Roles In Romeo And Juliet
Romeo and Juliet Essay
Shakespeare’s eminent play, Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two young kids who fall in love. Their families have an on-going feud and cannot stand each other. The two star-crossed lovers rush to their marriage and end this family feud through an unexpected turn of events. Shakespeare writes this novel to criticize and exaggerate young love. In the novel, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, young love is made to seem impulsive through how rapidly the two characters manage to “fall in love”, the roles in which each gender takes, and the brevity of the play entirely. Romeo, one of the main characters in Romeo and Juliet, falls too hard and too fast for women. As the play opens, Romeo is infatuated with a girl named Rosaline. He believes that this infatuation is love. Romeo speaks in paradoxes showing how love can be both, bad and good, harmful or helpful. Rosaline is a girl who is becoming a nun, which restricts him from being able to marry her. Having trouble accepting …show more content…
Juliet is more of a realist throughout the play. Juliet is head strong and is not afraid to voice her opinion which is not common for an Elizabethan woman of that time. This is very prevalent by the fact that she is fourteen and is still not married, which is unusual for a woman of her time. Romeo is not a stereotypical Elizabethan man. Romeo’s effeminate behavior display’s Shakespeare’s opinion about young love being unripe. Shakespeare states his opinion through Marcutio, “Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable. Now art thou Romeo. Now art thou what thou art—by art as well as by nature, for this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole” (2.4.90-95). Marcutio talks about Romeo being weak. Showing that he falls too hard as if he is a
Shakespeare’s eminent play, Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two young kids who fall in love. Their families have an on-going feud and cannot stand each other. The two star-crossed lovers rush to their marriage and end this family feud through an unexpected turn of events. Shakespeare writes this novel to criticize and exaggerate young love. In the novel, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, young love is made to seem impulsive through how rapidly the two characters manage to “fall in love”, the roles in which each gender takes, and the brevity of the play entirely. Romeo, one of the main characters in Romeo and Juliet, falls too hard and too fast for women. As the play opens, Romeo is infatuated with a girl named Rosaline. He believes that this infatuation is love. Romeo speaks in paradoxes showing how love can be both, bad and good, harmful or helpful. Rosaline is a girl who is becoming a nun, which restricts him from being able to marry her. Having trouble accepting …show more content…
Juliet is more of a realist throughout the play. Juliet is head strong and is not afraid to voice her opinion which is not common for an Elizabethan woman of that time. This is very prevalent by the fact that she is fourteen and is still not married, which is unusual for a woman of her time. Romeo is not a stereotypical Elizabethan man. Romeo’s effeminate behavior display’s Shakespeare’s opinion about young love being unripe. Shakespeare states his opinion through Marcutio, “Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable. Now art thou Romeo. Now art thou what thou art—by art as well as by nature, for this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole” (2.4.90-95). Marcutio talks about Romeo being weak. Showing that he falls too hard as if he is a