Shakespeare lived in a male-dominated world where women didn't have the same kind of respect the majority of our women do today and I feel like Shakespeare intended to show what life is like for women in society ruled by men in the 1500 through his plays like Romeo and Juliet. In plays like Romeo and Juliet, he not only criticized arranged marriages but he presented Juliet with a sense of feminism and he made Juliet ruin gender stereotypes by proposing to Romeo in Act 2 scene 2. ...

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