Romeo And Juliet Gender Roles

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In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold By Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The play Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare, the use gender roles established by society around each time era, help develop the plot of each piece of literature.Both of these pieces of literatures are from different time periods, Chronicle was published in 1981 but the real events happened in Sucre in 1951 while Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare between 1591-1595, and while the time differentiate the roles bestowed upon females by males in society have barely changed.

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