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Gender Roles In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Literature and Performance 2015 - 1st Assessment Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet presents the struggle for individual recognition, as characters undergo a process of self-fashioning as a means of definition in a restrictive, patriarchal society. Emerging out of the Liebestod myth, the play sees the impossible union of young lovers whose attempt to defy the obstacles in their path leads to their downfall (Levenson, p.2). Yet, Shakespeare’s play is not a universal tale of “star-crossed lovers”, rather its tragedy is inseparable from the societal and familial restrictions of the sixteenth century. Ultimately, it is only in death that Romeo and Juliet can finally escape the roles laid out for them, emerge from their families’ identities, and rank as individuals. If Romeo and Juliet is marked by the artifice of self-fashioning, the young lovers express a desire for individual recognition within the confinement of Elizabethan society. According to Greenblatt the sixteenth century saw an appearance of an …show more content…

Tragedy is governed by fate, Shakespeare presents no fatal flaw; rather the lovers are “death-marked” (9). With her “faith in heaven” (3.5.205) Juliet’s love for Romeo ties her indelibly to death – her husband may be “on earth” yet she cannot be with him in this lifetime. Yet, Juliet’s ‘fate’ is to live within the patriarchal conventions; her refusal to do will seal her doom. As Juliet cries “ancient damnation” at her plight, Levenson suggests that damnation is not merely purgatory but “also the cause of perdition” (300, n.7). While Juliet may be ‘damned’, her fate predetermined, so too do her actions bring “damnation” by disrupting the “ancient” patriarchal traditions in which she lives. If Romeo and Juliet are therefore both by fortune and societal restrictions ‘doomed’, Shakespeare suggests the only escape is to “have power to die”

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William Shakespeare, renowned author and poet, whose work has remained a prime example of quality material for centuries, began writing in the 1500s. His arguably most famous and renowned work, Romeo and Juliet, detested at its time, due to the tragic deaths of the main characters. Two young teenagers, star crossed lovers who are hopelessly lusting for one another. Their deaths were of their own accord, and yet there were many factors that played a role in influencing the rash decision that both teenagers decided to make. For centuries, people have argued which factor is most to blame, and yet there is still no definite answer.

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In reference to the bold statements of the younglings throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet, it could be said that they were willing to ‘risk it all’, despite the circumstances they were under. These two lovers, being described as “star-crossed”, propelled the storyline in a way that was facile for conflicts to form, all of which were a result of their forbidden love (Prologue 5). Over the short course of time during the period in which their story had taken place, Shakespeare asserted the impression that all these conflicts were caused by a cruel overwhelming fate, sheer accident, and by their own willfulness. All these facets of the plot coalesced and attributed to the bringing about of Romeo and Juliet’s untimely and unfortunate death.

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