During the Elizabethan era, the colors you wore determined your wealth. In the present day, we wake up and have the freedom to decide what we want to wear. That includes the many different colors we are able to choose from. In the Elizabethan era “it did not matter how wealthy they were - the color, fabric and material of their clothes were dictated by their rank, status or position and this was enforced by English Law (Alchin)”! The Laws were put in place to ensure social structure stayed in order(Alchin)
Specific Topic: The Changing views of Racism in Modern America and its relationship to the Racist movement during the Elizabethan Era Hook: Modern alternatives are often based in social observations of biological differences between people. These can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as fundamentally superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may
During the Elizabethan era, theater was very well known. Mainly because Elizabethan theaters reflected on the Elizabethan era. There was a lot going on with the theater business, that people wouldn’t understand unless they were apart of it. Plays were very popular and a lot of people would pay to go watch. They go because it was fairly cheap, and the people really enjoyed the acting and music. All social classes show up at plays. Actors go through a lot of hardships because they have to deal with
of William Shakespeare's play Othello allows us to judge the different marital relationships and the treatment of women in Elizabethan England. The notions of the Elizabethan patriarchal society, the practice of privileges in these marriages, and the suppression and restriction of femininity are all exhibited through Othello’s Venetian society. According to the Elizabethan Era, women were expected only to marry and keep responsibilities of the household, justified and acceptable by patriarchal rule
During the Elizabethan era, women were considered to be inferior to men. All women had the same job: to entirely submit themselves to a man. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he displays the women in Hamlet’s life as objects that are submissive to the men in their lives, whether it is their husband, father, or brother. Shakespeare presents women as dependent, simple-minded, sexual, feeble creatures in his works and that representation displays how he and society viewed women during a period in time
Elizabethan Era Clothing “The difference between style and fashion is quality” (Giorgio Armani). All the classes wore somewhat the same types of clothing pieces. What color and types of fabrics used within the clothing depended on what class a man was. The wealthier the man leads to better fabric, which means better the quality. Clothing was divided by social class, the three classes included the wealthy class, the middle class, and the peasant class. Queen Elizabeth decided to pass Sumptuary Laws
based upon the relevant values of society. Various social classes bring out a certain status that accompanies people in society, some of which bring a stigma, resulting in them being “outcasts” in society. During William Shakespeare’s time, the Elizabethan era, there were two prominent negative statuses in society, “the Jew” and the “bastard,” both of which were shunned. In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Shylock “the Jew” parallels Edmund “the bastard” in King Lear, in that both are presented as
An Analytical Essay of To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet was America's first published poet born in England in the Elizabethan era. Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northamptonshire, England. She was born into an upper-middle class family and she was very well educated, unlike most women in this era. She married Simon Bradstreet when she was only 16 years of age. In 1630 Anne Bradstreet emigrated to America with the Winthrop Puritan group, and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts with
Over the year’s different cities, towns, and countries have figured out their own punishment that works best for the crimes committed in that area. Each era has evolved the form of punishment for a particular crime from the previous era. The courts of the time decided which punishment the criminal should receive based on the crime they committed, but a punishment was never the same for an individual who committed the same crime. During the period of Queen Elizabeth I, punishment for a crime for an
that patriarchy and the Elizabethan and Puritan society shape the gender roles of Othello. The Puritan society asserts the dominance of men which affects the males behavior towards their wives or significant other. On the other hand, the male characters such as Othello need to maintain and establish hegemony over women which displays the patriarchal tradition during that era. The patriarchal Puritan society presented in Othello, influenced on the ideology of Elizabethan England, belittles and