even in their courage to challenge the way things are in the society, they revert to their traditional gender roles. Romeo tells Juliet that she has made hi soft “O sweet Juliet. /Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, /and in my temper soft’ned valor’s steel! (3.1.113-115). He feels that he is not in his rightful position as a man. Again, he engages in fights, to defend himself and his friends. Eventually he kills himself on learning that Juliet is dead. Juliet on the other hand reverts to submissiveness when she agrees to the plan of playing dead for two days. She trusts somebody else with her life, which ends in disaster. In going back to the traditions, the couple ends in tragedy.
The play advances the theme of a changing culture, from a patriarchal
The play advances the theme of a changing culture, from a patriarchal