Julius Caesar Gender
Through the weeks we have analysing different aspects of identities in certain performances. In this essay I will label the two plays with one identity aspect I have chosen, which is Gender. I will also be answering my question ‘If the two genders were to swap in Billy Elliot and Julius Caesar would it change or have an impact on the play?’ The two plays I will be analysing are Billy Elliot and Julius Caesar. Throughout I will talk about a few scenes from the play, but to firstly get a depth of what the gender aspect of identity is, it
To help with the identity aspect I will talk about one theorist and how they explain what they are. The gender theorist which specialises in this aspect is Judith Butler who I later will be talking about.
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I personally think it would have changed the play completely. You wouldn’t have seen his father struggling to go against his morals to provide for Billy. His mother would of been there hundred percent for him from the start, the play is majority based on seeing the changes in his father and giving up his beliefs and shown his love for his son.
In the play ‘Julius Caesar’ the women characters are consider as weak and somewhat irrelevant, due to the lack of roles and how they are portrayed through the small quantity of two female characters; Calphurnia and Portia. The women roles are not only limited in people but in time during the play, they are hardly on stage or noticed in comparison to the men. This is all down to the fact that when originally performed in Shakespearean theatre, woman were not allowed to be onstage so that is probably why Shakespeare only wrote a few amount of women characters, so instead You first see the lack of respect and believability from Caesar as he does not listen to his wife as he is afraid of been called weak and listens to someone else rather than his own wife, this is shown in Act 2, scene 2, …show more content…
The gender swap can create a huge difference on the way the play is perceived; I listed a few from the particular plays I chose but the list can go on and on. It takes a distinct amount of audience members to see the gender role in reverse and make them really think about how the play could be seen in a different point of view. For instance, as I suggested, Michael from Billy Elliot’s role as a young female coming out as a lesbian compared to a young boy revealing he is a homosexual, would they still expect the young girl to be all feminine or would they predict it would be all masculine and quite in depth. Carrying on, what if Julius Caesar was in fact ‘Julia Caesar’, would a member of the general public still expect it to carry on with her not listening to her husband’s wishes or expecting something completely different? And the slight change of gender role can create a whole new piece of
To help with the identity aspect I will talk about one theorist and how they explain what they are. The gender theorist which specialises in this aspect is Judith Butler who I later will be talking about.
First …show more content…
I personally think it would have changed the play completely. You wouldn’t have seen his father struggling to go against his morals to provide for Billy. His mother would of been there hundred percent for him from the start, the play is majority based on seeing the changes in his father and giving up his beliefs and shown his love for his son.
In the play ‘Julius Caesar’ the women characters are consider as weak and somewhat irrelevant, due to the lack of roles and how they are portrayed through the small quantity of two female characters; Calphurnia and Portia. The women roles are not only limited in people but in time during the play, they are hardly on stage or noticed in comparison to the men. This is all down to the fact that when originally performed in Shakespearean theatre, woman were not allowed to be onstage so that is probably why Shakespeare only wrote a few amount of women characters, so instead You first see the lack of respect and believability from Caesar as he does not listen to his wife as he is afraid of been called weak and listens to someone else rather than his own wife, this is shown in Act 2, scene 2, …show more content…
The gender swap can create a huge difference on the way the play is perceived; I listed a few from the particular plays I chose but the list can go on and on. It takes a distinct amount of audience members to see the gender role in reverse and make them really think about how the play could be seen in a different point of view. For instance, as I suggested, Michael from Billy Elliot’s role as a young female coming out as a lesbian compared to a young boy revealing he is a homosexual, would they still expect the young girl to be all feminine or would they predict it would be all masculine and quite in depth. Carrying on, what if Julius Caesar was in fact ‘Julia Caesar’, would a member of the general public still expect it to carry on with her not listening to her husband’s wishes or expecting something completely different? And the slight change of gender role can create a whole new piece of