Traditional Gender Roles In A Midsummer Night's Dream

For my question I chose what is Shakespeare saying about traditional gender roles? I think he is trying to show that women should have a say in their lives and community he is throwing the traditional gender roles away I'm multiple creative ways that aren't necessarily saying that the traditional gender roles are stupid or not important just that they should be changed a bit to give women more choice in what happens in their lives.

Shakespeare shows this I'm plenty of ways but the most notable one is Hermia not doing or listening to what her father tells her to do. In Midnight summer's dream Hermia is faced with a very difficult situation she loves Lysander and Lysander loves her but Demetrius loves Hermia as well and Hermia's father favorites Demetrius so he wants Hermia and Demetrius to wed, but Hermia is not in favor of this so she has the options to marry Demetrius, be a non and be single forever, or so be killed. She decides that she is going to run away with Lysander. This whole situation is against traditional gender roles because in the first place Hermia should listen to her father and marry Demetrius. Women do not have a say to who or what they want when a man gets involved especially her father or someone they have to respect and look up to. Another situation that is against traditional gender roles is Helena and Demetrius, Helena loves Demetrius and they used to be engaged but Demetrius fell for Hermia and now Helena is chasing Demetrius this is against gender roles because …show more content…
Now this doesn't mean they have been changed there are still a lot of places where traditional gender roles are used daily through people's lives and even in the United States it's not common but there are some traditional gender roles still being used in people's