Stereotypes In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Has an adult ever come up to you and start with the phrase “when I was a kid” or “back then”. They make it seem as our lives are so different, but are they? Yes, our world has created new technologies, but we still have one thing in common; negative stereotypes.In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare,the video “Slap Her”, and the poem “For women who are ‘difficult’ to love” By Warsan Shire all three texts use negative stereotypes in a negative way because they all describe women negatively. In A Midsummer Night's Dream the negative stereotype men have authority and women are powerless is used in a negative way. In the book Egeus shows he has all the authority when he doesn’t let Hermia marry Lysander. Egeus says angrily to Hermia when she refuses to marry Demetrius “Which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death”(5-43).The word

In the beginning of the poem Warsan Shire describes how she is difficult. Warsan writes “you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you”. By Warsan comparing herself to a “running horse” it shows that she is trying to break away and doesn’t want to be controlled. When Shire says “he tries to tame you” it shows that he is trying to control her and she is being difficult. It also shows that the man described in the poem is easy because he doesn’t need to be controlled since he is the one controlling other people. The poem also uses the stereotype when Shire talks about what she was compared to. The poem states “compares you to an impossible highway” The metaphor shows that women are hard to deal with and are difficult. It also shows that women are hard to understand, and because the man in the poem is the one using the metaphor that men are easy when compared to women. In the poem the author uses the negative stereotype women are difficult and men are