Romeo and Juliet
Explore the theme of marriage and love in Romeo and Juliet, comparing how attitudes, towards marriage and love have changed from Shakespeare’s day to today
Introduction
The play Romeo and Juliet was published in 1562, the play was inspired by the author Arthur Brooke who rote a narrative poem ‘the tragically history of Romeos and Juliet’, this is the source where Shakespeare got the idea of making the well known play Romeo and Juliet. The genre of the play romeo and Juliet is tragic theme, the genre is a tragic theme because at the end of the play Romeo and Juliet aren’t able to get there happy ending there happy ending but Romeo kills him self in the sorrow of hearing about Juliet’s death, but Juliet isn’t actually dead, so she also puts a end to her self by getting a dagger and dyeing next to her love.
The play Romeo and Juliet is set in the city Verona, it is set around the 16th century the reason why I think Shakespeare choose the era is because there’s was a lot of complications between males and females, the males where always dominant characters in house holds. This meant that the men would own everything, this will include the property, any money or inheritance which has come forth her family will automatically be owned by the male, which meant that if they wanted to separate ( have a divorce ) this would lead them into being spinsters because they’ll have nothing to fall back on, also the families of the 16th century would not take there daughters back because firstly divorce wasn’t allowed and no one would marry a female after she’s been divorced, they found it to be impure.
