Comparing Women In Macbeth And As You Like It

William Shakespeare was born in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in the year of 1564. His father was a tradesman and his mother was a daughter to an affluent farmer (The life of William Shakespeare 1554-1616). He was not born into a wealthy family, and this represented the difficulties his family underwent and the inability to attend a university. By the time William Shakespeare decides to move to London, it is where he begins to write his sonnets and plays. Overall William Shakespeare represents a controversial figure in the Elizabethan/Renaissance era for the reason that he was able to modify and challenge depictions of women. He was able to represent women in his plays to attain both weaknesses and strengths in projection to the way women were either treated at that time era, or represented as. History has revealed that women …show more content…
These two characters may be different but they both are assertive to attaining what they wanted, and they both rely on either an authoritative figure or being disguised as one in order to succeed their goals in mind. Lady Macbeth had to get what she wanted through her husband, and Rosalind got what she wanted by being in disguise as a male. This reflects back to the notion that Shakespeare did recognize the true nature of a woman, and how they were not able to succeed with what they wanted if it was not for either cross dressing as a male, or manipulating a male authority figure. His plays read throughout the semester lead to also question gender inequality in his time era, where a lot his female characters defied the patriarchal