Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

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Elizabethan women were limited on their life choices and what they wanted to do. Women did not have many rights, "Marriages were frequently arranged" (http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-marriages-and-weddings.htm. For example in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was forced into marrying Paris whether she liked it or not because her parents make the decisions for her. She hated the idea so much that she put herself to sleep because she did not want to leave her dear Romeo that she had already married in secret for Paris. Unfortunately "disobedience was seen as a crime against their religion" (http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-women.htm). Although the nurse had known that Juliet married Romeo she could not tell Lord Capulet to