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
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
Twelfth Night; when traditionally, the servants of high status families would be put in charge of the household to hold parties and feasts for the 5th or 6th of January. The festival is also known as ‘the feast of misrule’, due to the reversal of social roles which would associate the period with chaos, which is a major theme in the play. For example, Feste the fool is able to outwit those of a higher status than him, instead of it being, conventionally, the other way around. Malvolio acts as the
because of the social, economic, cultural and governmental set-ups of the area. Many American Muslim women are discriminated against because they cover their heads; Pakistani women have political rights but are often exploited; Saudi Women have no public role, yet they are the most secure and protected. The negative stereotypes of Muslim women probably arise from this varying treatment of women. This comes handy for the Western media, whose favorite pastime is to latch on to a few examples of illogical