'Role Reversal in Romeo and Juliet'

'Even in todays modern society, some(prenominal) male and female person stereotypes be present. These grammatical gender stereotypes were even to a greater extent present during the marrow Ages in which the consort Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was set. through with(predicate) char compriseerization, Shakespeare clearly depicts the social expectation for behavior, beliefs and determine in twain males and females. However the devil lovers in the play, Romeo and Juliet, dare these standards of their time and in turn at last end up in their unsaved death. The gender stereotypes during the fourteenth century constitute of men being violent and women being passive, yet with Romeo displaying muliebrity through his romanticist airs and Juliet covering an uncommon vividness for women during her time, Romeo and Juliets bohemian behavior proves how they did not follow the norm at the time.\nIn Verona during the mid 1500s, the adult male of males was founded u pon power, sexual dominance, and conquest. everyday life was sh take in to be full of distort atmospheres, especially with the betrothal between the Capulets and the Montagues. The two houses dislike for each(prenominal) other was transmitted all the way cut to the low positions of servants. During the first act of the play, Shakespeare already demonstrates the violence instilled in males. Sampson, nonpareil of the Capulet servants, boasted to another servant, Tis true, and and then women, being the/weaker vessels, are ever jab to the wall; therefrom I/ allow push Montagues men from the wall, and confuse/ his maids to the wall (1.1). These were the thoughts of an fair(a) male person during the time. Their instinct and primeval desires were acted upon without a hour thought of ethical motive or consequence. male person enemies had to be brought down through armed combat duels, and women were nothing but objects meant for males to overpower and mortify to satisfy thei r own sexual needs. Women alike had a push-down list of behavioral expectations they had to follow. They were considered to be... '