Romeo And Juliet Feminist Analysis

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If you have ever analyzed the female characters in a story, you might have noticed that they are often degraded or demoralized. Most frequently female characters are portrayed as being weak, only good for their beauty and sexual intimacy, or reliant on men. These sexist beliefs are seen multiple times throughout Romeo and Juliet, as well as almost any other story. One example of this female injustice occurs when Romeo is thinking about Juliet and whispers,”Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/ Who is already sick and pale with grief,/ That thou, her maid, art far more fair that she” (2.2.4-6). This scene proves the Feminist Theory because all Romeo really seems to see in Juliet is her wonderful physique. When he say “kill the envious moon,” he is not really talking about an actual moon, he is expecting that she “kills” the …show more content…
This wrongfully states that all women show far more emotions and excessively weep only because they are too weak to hold it all in. A third example that shows this unfair treatment to women is when Capulet gets really mad at Juliet for saying no to Paris, so he yells: “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!/ I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday,/ Or never after look me in the face./ Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me” (3.5.160-163). In this scene, Juliet’s father seriously flips out at Juliet for refusing to marry Paris and he treats his daughter like a piece of property that he can give away to another man. This proves the Feminist Theory because Paris is able to marry whoever he wants, Capulet gets the power to sell his daughter to another man, but Juliet is not allowed to have any rights what-so-ever when it comes to who she will marry. The feminist theory is prevalent throughout the whole story Romeo and Juliet. Women are constantly being degraded and demoralized. They are depicted as helpless and only there to be reliant
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