In this world there are certain expectations that are precedent in society, such as the way men and women act. “Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was a great play that will always be noted as one of the best tragedies of all time.The novel contains examples of gender performativity shown through Romeo and Juliet that sparks an interesting discussion. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” by Judith Butler brings up a lot of debatable topics on gender and society.Judith Butler 's idea of performative gender and her theory of the roles of men and women in society are that they they should not be stereotyped. Her theory connects and in fact complements the idea of gender performance shown in the novel Romeo And Juliet and how characters
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Butler states that all though one may show signs and characteristics of a certain gender does not determine their outwardly desires. In this text we can conclude that Romeo in some aspects can be perceived as a soft and emotional man, although this is true these actions does not make him homosexual. He shows emotional and physical attraction towards Juliet and expresses his feelings in a extremely chivalrous manner, which in this time period women would see these actions as feminine traits. Romeos gender identification is not only established through us reading about his love for Juliet but his interactions with other characters within the story. But, according to Judith Butler because of his exhibit of what is considered as feminine traits these traits are presenting themselves from a symptom of his inner core identity and his trueself of reflecting a homosexual identity. However, Butler says that gender identity does not express all inner truth, but it is the product of repetition of actions which makes gender a performance. According to this section of her theory we may assume or ponder upon the idea that Romeo had been exposed and interacted with mostly females as he was growing up which caused him to develop his soft and emotional traits and effected his gender performativity. But at the end of the day he is still a male and desires to be with a female. Moving on …show more content…
Juliet switches to becoming a normal submissive woman which allows Friar Lawrence to persuade her easily. His plan was for her to take a fake potion that would make her seem dead in order to avoid the conflict of the marriage dispute between her parents.She changes into a what seems to be a newly found feminine role that the reader isn’t fond of by letting someone give her actions to follow. In the final scene of the play,Romeo reverts back to his natural gender identity because he has seen that them acting as new people has caused many problems in their relationship leading up to her “death”. Romeo becomes very sad and heartbroken at seeing his loved one lying on the floor and takes his life with poison, which is a more feminine form of suicide. Then after that, Juliet wakes up and sees her husband’s dead body and stabs herself with a dagger in a violent manner that reflects a more masculine form of suicide which brings the great Shakespearean play to an end.Regarding gender in terms of performativity, Judith Butler rejects anything that promotes the use of gender categories that affect the identity of people.Gender for her is always a performance which is entirely a social matter in which others perceive and will forever make judgements
Butler states that all though one may show signs and characteristics of a certain gender does not determine their outwardly desires. In this text we can conclude that Romeo in some aspects can be perceived as a soft and emotional man, although this is true these actions does not make him homosexual. He shows emotional and physical attraction towards Juliet and expresses his feelings in a extremely chivalrous manner, which in this time period women would see these actions as feminine traits. Romeos gender identification is not only established through us reading about his love for Juliet but his interactions with other characters within the story. But, according to Judith Butler because of his exhibit of what is considered as feminine traits these traits are presenting themselves from a symptom of his inner core identity and his trueself of reflecting a homosexual identity. However, Butler says that gender identity does not express all inner truth, but it is the product of repetition of actions which makes gender a performance. According to this section of her theory we may assume or ponder upon the idea that Romeo had been exposed and interacted with mostly females as he was growing up which caused him to develop his soft and emotional traits and effected his gender performativity. But at the end of the day he is still a male and desires to be with a female. Moving on …show more content…
Juliet switches to becoming a normal submissive woman which allows Friar Lawrence to persuade her easily. His plan was for her to take a fake potion that would make her seem dead in order to avoid the conflict of the marriage dispute between her parents.She changes into a what seems to be a newly found feminine role that the reader isn’t fond of by letting someone give her actions to follow. In the final scene of the play,Romeo reverts back to his natural gender identity because he has seen that them acting as new people has caused many problems in their relationship leading up to her “death”. Romeo becomes very sad and heartbroken at seeing his loved one lying on the floor and takes his life with poison, which is a more feminine form of suicide. Then after that, Juliet wakes up and sees her husband’s dead body and stabs herself with a dagger in a violent manner that reflects a more masculine form of suicide which brings the great Shakespearean play to an end.Regarding gender in terms of performativity, Judith Butler rejects anything that promotes the use of gender categories that affect the identity of people.Gender for her is always a performance which is entirely a social matter in which others perceive and will forever make judgements