Women From The 16Th Century - Romeo And Juliet

From Romeo and Juliet, we learn about the role of women that they could only marry who their parents thought was appropriate for them, their job was from an early age to run a household and havechildren and they had to marry very young (in Juliet’s case, 14 years old). We know they had to marry with who their parents chose from Capulet and Lady Capulet, who had this situation with Juliet. Weknow their job was to run a household and have children from Juliet’s mother, who doesn’t work (but has a nurse to do her job and look after Juliet), and we know they had to marry very early from Juliet,because it’s what she had to do.
Things in the 16th Century were very different to nowadays in a lot of ways.
The education in the 16th Century hardly existed for women: they couldn’t go touniversity and most of them couldn’t even go to school; instead they were taught to run a household and look after babies. This happened because people thought men’s education was more important, becausethey needed to work and earn money to support the family, and that women should stay at home looking after the children and after the house. For example Lady Capulet doesn’t appear working in all theplay, which means she doesn’t have a job, she is only in charge of looking after Juliet, but as she has a lot of money she doesn’t have any problems.
Women grew up being controlled by their parents,especially by men. They were subservient to men and were dependent on their male relatives to support them. They were expected to obey the male members of their families without question. We can seethis in Romeo and Juliet when Juliet and her father discuss because Juliet doesn’t want to obey her father and marry Paris.
Women’s place in society was a lot inferior to men’s. Men were strong anddominant to the people’s view, and women were the weak gender. Normal women didn’t have any rights, and men had them all. Royal and important women did have some, but certainly not as much as men. We...