Arranged Marriages In A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare it demonstrates the negative treatment that women received from society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A woman’s negative treatment was different then it is in the current time. They were basically represented as if they were not humans, mainly like objects in a way that they were thrown around as if they were useless and some were spoken offensively to.
Women within this play were forced to get married to someone that their parents wanted them to be with. Also, they were disrespected in so many ways and they really had no choice and they do not have a say in anything. This is portrayed within this play of how they did not have any rights and how they were portrayed, no woman …show more content…
He was showing how looks do not matter by making someone fall in love with someone that they do not have true feelings for. There was Puck who played with love by making people fall in love with each other when they did not see any interest in them, by doing this he used a potion. He showed how women had to choose between love and what their father wanted for them and also the consequences that were made for their actions.
Arranged marriages are still taking place today and just like before they are still having many problems with them. One problem is there could be a vast age difference, which could lead to a different way of thinking and interpreting things. Next, most girls that are in an arranged marriage tend to get married at a young age. They are still just a kid and cannot handle all the responsibilities that come with a marriage. Lastly, subject of divorce. Most women do not like to ask for a divorce from the spouse because they would be afraid of what could possibly happen.
So, this is a very cruel this towards women, and someday I hope that the arranged marriages will be eliminated totally at some point in
Women within this play were forced to get married to someone that their parents wanted them to be with. Also, they were disrespected in so many ways and they really had no choice and they do not have a say in anything. This is portrayed within this play of how they did not have any rights and how they were portrayed, no woman …show more content…
He was showing how looks do not matter by making someone fall in love with someone that they do not have true feelings for. There was Puck who played with love by making people fall in love with each other when they did not see any interest in them, by doing this he used a potion. He showed how women had to choose between love and what their father wanted for them and also the consequences that were made for their actions.
Arranged marriages are still taking place today and just like before they are still having many problems with them. One problem is there could be a vast age difference, which could lead to a different way of thinking and interpreting things. Next, most girls that are in an arranged marriage tend to get married at a young age. They are still just a kid and cannot handle all the responsibilities that come with a marriage. Lastly, subject of divorce. Most women do not like to ask for a divorce from the spouse because they would be afraid of what could possibly happen.
So, this is a very cruel this towards women, and someday I hope that the arranged marriages will be eliminated totally at some point in