Social Hierarchy In Romeo And Juliet

The play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is about children of feuding families falling in love, getting married behind their parents backs and then choosing to die rather then lose each other. In this play Shakespeare does an excellent job of showing the dominant theme of a social hierarchy. This theme is the dominate theme because the two main characters would not have the problems that they did if they were not aristocrats. Also if this is not so they would never of met, and they wouldn’t be worried that each other is of the same class, because at this time you only married your class unless you were rich then you married for advantage. Social Hierarchy is a practice that still exists today, is the reason for many of the social problems exist and important for everyday life in the time of Romeo and Juliet but also in today’s era.

The theme of a Social

This is shown in the difference between the aristocrats and the servants such as the way they dress, how they talk, and how they interact with each other. A good example of this Juliet and the nurse. Juliet is always dressed in the finest silk and hair is always perfect when the nurse is in simple cloth and hair is ascue pulled back. Also Juliet doesn't head the nurses warning about marrying Romeo but even the nurse does not agree the nurse does what ever Juliet asks of her. Also