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Examples Of Stereotypes In Romeo And Juliet

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Kennedy Ballard 4/4/23 Miss Holt Feminism In the times of Romeo and Juliet women were expected to follow orders. The men would control society. Juliet during this time defies that role of a woman. She flirts with Romeo extremely, Juliet and Romeo even kiss. Juliet even comes to the conclusion that she wants to marry Romeo. Her parents, on the other hand, want her to marry some other man. Juliet does not want to marry this random man that her parents want her too. This takes place in Verona, Italy. The two families in this story hate each other with a passion. Juliet, the daughter of Lady Capulet and Romeo the son of Lady Montegue. Since the year of basically 2000, people these days believe that men and women are equal. Many people ask …show more content…

In the times of Romeo and Juliet women were strictly expected of this. She was to marry some random man and was expected to go with this. Juliet was not into this at all. Guys were just eager and only thought of women as girls who would just clean and expected to cook and take care of children. A lot of men just mainly used them for pleasure as well. Boys and girls to this day are constantly being stereotyped. Being stereotyped really does affect women in many ways, not all good. Juliet's parents were not as close with her since Juliet did not come out of her mothers whom. Juliet was way closer with her nurse since she had raised her. In Juliet's time her father owned her and got to choose who she would marry and what age she should marry at. It did not matter to him whether the man was 10 years older than her or not. It was his choice and Juliet had no say into it. Juliet tried all that she could to disagree with her parents. Even if she had to kill herself. These days women are compared by different traits they have that others do not. People think that these days it is all equal. But is it really? Women are still at a disadvantage in some ways. Juliet was …show more content…

Women have a lot more freedom than Juliet did, even though women still are at a disadvantage in many ways. For example in the WNBA women get way less pay than men in the NBA do. Why is that? Is it not the same sport? Is it not just as professional? Women have many wonders with that one. It is just not fair. Life is not fair. Juliet is willing to end it all for this, do women nowadays feel the same? It is not okay for women to have to feel this way even though many go through that problem everyday in life, whether it is with their jobs, family members, and other things we could not know about. The struggle is real. Juliet went through a time of depression, this was hard for her. Sneaking around and having to do things behind her parents back. All because of inequality, Feminist are all for females obviously, but some take it extremely far and think that Feminist are completely against men and all that they do. They are like this because of frustration built up inside from things nowadays and things that our fellow women had to go through back then like Juliet. There is a big image on this that is completely opposite of what this actually is. Juliet kills herself because she can not be

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