Shakespeares intentions

• Represents a post-Reformation society

  that was becoming less oppressed, though the duality between progression

  and tradition that permeates her life could also warn against quick, reckless

  change.
• Shakespeare uses the Nurse as a vessel to show the loneliness of women trapped in a patriarchal society causing them to emotionally deteriorate.   
• Shakespeare was a proto feminist so uses Juliet as a vessel to influence a subservient society.
• She becomes dangerously passionate in her pursuit for love possibly Shakespeare’s warning against the folly of the youth.
• Shakespeare uses Romeo and Juliet’s relationship as a warning against impulsivity and the lustful barriers of love.
• Juliet has also become interconnected with Romeo’s insanity, and this could be a strong criticism of reckless passion from Shakespeare yet also a society that forces the youth into extreme circumstances to abide and conform with the patriarchy.
• Juliet shows her dependence on Romeo which is Shakespeare’s criticism of society for taking young women’s independence from them
• This could be Shakespeare’s criticism of the radical violence post reformation
• Fl is once again trying to play fate which is unnatural and Shakespeare comments on the dangers of playing God
• Shakespeare uses Friar Lawrence to criticise the radical violence post reformation and to highlight the naivety that intelligence conceals.
• Shakespeare uses him as a vessel to show how an Elizabethan society emasculated men who felt weakness and emotions causing Romeo to be driven to insanity.
• Shakespeare was a proto-feminist criticising young men’s views on women.
• Romeo and Juliet are contradictory and seem to portray the concept human are complex and multifaceted showing the union of love and violence.