'Role Reversal in Romeo and Juliet'

'Even in todays modern society, many male and egg-producing(prenominal) stereotypes argon present. These sexual serveivity stereotypes were even more than present during the centre Ages in which the match Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was set. d one(a) characterization, Shakespeare clearly depicts the societal expectation for behavior, beliefs and value in some(prenominal) males and females. However the 2 lovers in the play, Romeo and Juliet, fend these standards of their time and in turn ultimately end up in their damned death. The gender stereotypes during the fourteenth century brood of men organism violent and women cosmos passive, plainly with Romeo displaying muliebrity through his quixotic directions and Juliet wake an uncommon force for women during her time, Romeo and Juliets improper behavior proves how they did not follow the add up at the time. \nIn Verona during the mid 1500s, the cosmos of males was founded upon strength, sexual dominanc e, and conquest. everyday life was sh hold to be full of strive atmospheres, especially with the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues. The dickens houses dislike for for each one other was catching all the way surmount to the utmost positions of servants. During the first act of the play, Shakespeare already demonstrates the violence instilled in males. Sampson, one of the Capulet servants, boasted to another servant, Tis true, and accordingly women, being the/weaker vessels, are ever wring to the wall; because I/ pass on push Montagues men from the wall, and force/ his maids to the wall (1.1). These were the thoughts of an average male individual during the time. Their instinct and prime desires were acted upon without a southward thought of religion or consequence. manly enemies had to be brought down through flake duels, and women were nothing but objects meant for males to overpower and batter to satisfy their own sexual needs. Women in addition ha d a stack of behavioral expectations they had to follow. They were considered to be...'