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Explain how Shakespeare’s Juliet changes over the course of the play from a submissive and obedient girl into a resolute woman
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Explain how Shakespeare's Juliet changes over the course of the play from a submissive and obedient girl into a resolute woman Life for women in Shakespeare's day was not the easiest, they were second to men and had limited roles due to lack of contraception. Women had few rights, and were not aloud to vote. However if you were wealthy and you were a high class woman you could be lucky enough to get an education. If you were a girl growing up in Elizabethan times your parents would control you, and your father would have power over you, this occurs in the play Romeo and Juliet. In the wealthy Capulet household Juliet is overpowered by her father, lord Capulet. "My child is yet a stranger in the world; She hath not seen the change of fourteen years" Paris asked if he could marry Juliet, this quotation is lord Capulet responding to him by...
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