Extended Response - Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are plays that share similar ideologies and representations despite them being a tragedy and a comedy respectively. The similarities are predominantly that of the father daughter relationship, as well as love, marriage and rebellion. Romeo and Juliet is a story about star crossed lovers whose families are feuding, with a plot line that focuses on Juliet and her father Capulet. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is also a story based on young love, with many love triangles. But there is also a part to the play that focuses on Hermia’s relationship with her father Egus. Despite the representation of teenage rebellion in these plays, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ultimately reinforces the traditional patriarchal relationship between a father and daughter. This relationship sees the father with overarching power over the daughter. It is commonly thought that "power plays a different role in father - …show more content…
The initial meeting of Romeo and Juliet was due to Romeo’s rebellion, sneaking into the Capulet ball to follow his love interest Rosaline. Here we can see Romeo’s change in feelings from one girl to another in a single night, possibly as Shakespeare’s scrutinisation of young love as it can be seen that Romeo is merely in love with the idea of love and women. Furthermore due to the change in her relationship with her father, and even a little before that, Juliet begins to rebel in order to be with Romeo asking Romeo to rebel also with the famous lines, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Within these lines, it is evident that Juliet has no care for her father and is willing to go against / betray him in order to be with
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are plays that share similar ideologies and representations despite them being a tragedy and a comedy respectively. The similarities are predominantly that of the father daughter relationship, as well as love, marriage and rebellion. Romeo and Juliet is a story about star crossed lovers whose families are feuding, with a plot line that focuses on Juliet and her father Capulet. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is also a story based on young love, with many love triangles. But there is also a part to the play that focuses on Hermia’s relationship with her father Egus. Despite the representation of teenage rebellion in these plays, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ultimately reinforces the traditional patriarchal relationship between a father and daughter. This relationship sees the father with overarching power over the daughter. It is commonly thought that "power plays a different role in father - …show more content…
The initial meeting of Romeo and Juliet was due to Romeo’s rebellion, sneaking into the Capulet ball to follow his love interest Rosaline. Here we can see Romeo’s change in feelings from one girl to another in a single night, possibly as Shakespeare’s scrutinisation of young love as it can be seen that Romeo is merely in love with the idea of love and women. Furthermore due to the change in her relationship with her father, and even a little before that, Juliet begins to rebel in order to be with Romeo asking Romeo to rebel also with the famous lines, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Within these lines, it is evident that Juliet has no care for her father and is willing to go against / betray him in order to be with