Gender Sterotyping ;

Romeo and Juliet is a timeless class, we still have to consider the fact that it was written ages ago, and women were thought of as less. Now women are viewed as equal but as the weaker sex. The play perpetuates the stereotypes that women are weaker than men. They stereotype all the women as being weak. Sampson says to Gregory, “women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust his maids to the wall.” He is saying that women are less important and that’s the way women were seen as.

                Women aren’t seen as independent and as individuals. Men thought of them as degrading and an item. In Romeo & Juliet Sampson says they are “weaker vessels. I believe that this is the way women will be seen as and treated all throughout the rest of the play. Women will be treated as objects and seen as weak because this is how women were looked upon during these times. In the play we will see the men continue to act like they are more powerful while the women are there for and to do whatever the men want.

                Today stereotyping of gender still goes on in our society. Women are still seen as the substandard sex and men are still seen as a more powerful. Even though it may not be a stereotype that is often taken place as it was in the past, it still exists in society today. Women are still treated differently than men are. They are stereotyped based on gender in almost everything.