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Romeo and Juliet Coursework By Nazreen Kosar Hussain I have been assigned with a task on the play Romeo and Juliet written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare. Within my assignment I have to write about the way in which females are seen to assume a secondary role and what William Shakespeare might be trying to say about the role of women in society. Romeo and Juliet was first published in 1599. It is set in early 13th Century Verona. Although William Shakespeare is writing about the early 13th century the way in which he writes about women is how they were treated in the 16th Century. In this era women were seen as child-bearing objects, their principal roles being that of a mother and a wife. In this quote Sampson actually says those women are objects to adore and to admire. "Women being the weaker vessel Are ever thrust to the wall." (Sampson) Act 1...

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