Question

Hey there, i need some help. not because i cant do it, simply that im in a hurry to meet a deadline. can you help me paraphrase this? @formerlyadinosaur

Answer 1

No problem!

Answer 2

Juliet has been socialized—by her mother and her nurse—not to think for herself. Her mother insists on Paris as a marriage partner for Juliet, using an everyday metaphor familiar to Juliet. Paris is a book: “Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face” (1.3.85). Juliet, her mother explains, is to be the book-cover, a decorative ornament to Paris’ substance: “This precious book of love, this unbound lover, / To beautify him, only lacks a cover” (91-92). It is Paris who is the “fair volume” (89); Juliet is to be a reader, but an uncritical, unthinking reader. Her mother forces the issue, “Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?” (100), not providing Juliet an opportunity to protest, to analyze, or even yet lay eyes on the one whom she is to love. Juliet’s immediate response is obedience, as she has been taught: “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move: / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly” (101-103). It’s important that Juliet obeys her mother, and promises to obey her mother in the future, and promises to wait on her mother’s “consent” before she reads any “deep[er]” into Paris.



How the play demonstrates the socialization of young women is further explained by Joan Kelly-Gadol’s essay “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” Kelly-Gadol argues that Renaissance women actually lost ground against men that they held in earlier times. Noblewomen like Juliet “were increasingly removed from public concerns—economic, political, and cultural” (351), through processes of socialization about love. Kelly-Gadol further explains,


Renaissance ideas on love and manners…almost exclusively a male product, expressed this new subordination of women to the interests of husband and male-dominated kin groups and served to justify the removal of women from an ‘unlady-like’ position of power and erotic independence. (351)
We see this subordination of women in the opening scenes of Romeo and Juliet, as Juliet may only aspire to read Paris’ face and then, if all goes well, be his ornamental “cover”—a dirty pun, as the society celebrates the conquest of Juliet in Paris’ marriage bed. That this socialization of Juliet to “look to like” Paris is accomplished by Juliet’s mother, a woman, reveals to us how successful the Renaissance project of subordination of women became

Answer 3

Alright so to do this do you have an outline or a cluster or main points paper I can work off of?

Answer 4

I had an outline but my teacher currently has it. I just need to rephrase this so that i can have some feminist examples ( of course with a little shazaam added to it) coming from R&J.

Answer 5

Hmmm okay, let me see what I can do (:

Answer 6

And I will do my best too because you just typed shazaam and I think that is beautiful lol

Answer 7

LOL, well aren't you just the best ? :D

Answer 8

In the classic play Romeo and Juliet the character, Juliet, has been taught to be selfless, beautiful, quiet, and to do as she is told.

Answer 9

I think this is a good starting summary, do you?

Answer 10

Lol XD I try to be haha

Answer 11

Yeah, thats a good start ^.^

Answer 12

Of course, you are free to add and to it rephrase it into your writing style as you please (: I'll keep cracking on it. Any specific sentences you want me to work in?

Answer 13

Just whatever you feel like using.
Note that as my teacher will be checking for " Plagiarism " i am going to have to reword what you say just by a little bit, just enough so she cant say anything about it (x

Answer 14

Lol okay, do be careful though. You can email me your final corrections of it and I will look it through if you like?

Answer 15

okay i will once im finished, im going to go ahead and start working on the macbeth part of my paper while you help me with this one, that okay?

Answer 16

Yep, no problem (:

Answer 17

okay thanks

Answer 18

@ManWithThePlan Done(: What grade level are you again?

Answer 19

You are going to need to majorly edit your paper :(

Answer 20

Why do you say that? and highschool

Answer 21

Message me

Answer 22

done

Answer 23

Thanks! I'll get to you in one moment (: can you remind me what kind of paper this is again?

Answer 24

Argumentative Literature based.

Answer 25

So it is a persuasive essay? Also, can you send me the guidelines, I want to help you get everything at optimal shape (:

Answer 26

Yeah, ill have to scan them or take a picture of them. its 2am here, what about there?

Answer 27

1am

Answer 28

Sounds good (:

Answer 29

Got it yet?

Answer 30

last one

Answer 31

Was what you sent to me your final paper?

Answer 32

nope, just the intructions/guidelines on what all i have to do,

Answer 33

No, I mean before lol

Answer 34

Oh no, that was just a source i had found.

Answer 35

I'm so confused lol. The thing I paraphrased right?

Answer 36

Yes, the thing you paraphrased for me was from an online source that i just copied and pasted.

Answer 37

Ohhhh ok

Answer 38

Yes, anything else you need ?

Answer 39

Nope(:

Answer 40

Does the guideline have whatever you needed to find ?

Answer 41

Yessir(: do you have the actual paper worked out?

Answer 42

Im sorry? can you re-phrase that?

Answer 43

Yeah, sorry! Do you have your paper all written up?

Answer 44

yeah. i have like 2 pages out of 5-7 not counting my title page, reference or abstract page

Answer 45

Awesome (:

Answer 46

yeah, i couldnt find much for macbeth on the feminist side..

Answer 47

Yeahhh probably not.

Answer 48

You cant see the feminism in Macbeth?

Answer 49

No, do you have some examples ? @Ashleyisakitty

Answer 50

Lady Macbeth, powerful, lustful, bloodthirsty. Almost all opposing characteristics to how women were supposed to behave.

Answer 51

How would you describe her character if you could in about 1-2 or even 3 paragraphs?

Answer 52

Sorry, its hard for me to think on 3 hours of sleep at 2:45 in the morning -_-"

Answer 53

Also -- the introductory witches at the beginning, if you have read recently you might remember them being portayed as women with BEARDS. A masculine feature, on a woman? To show their power.

Answer 54

Id spend each paragraph explaining her different sides. Witty, evil, guilty etc.

Answer 55

Which most women who showed signs of power were declared to be witches because it was against Elizabethan/shakespeare society right?

Answer 56

OH, and when she decides that she is TRULY willing to murder with her husband, she asks the spirts to "desex" her and "take away her breasts". She wants to trade in her role as woman and mother to be a powerful murderer.

Answer 57

Sometimes. In those days if you got accused of witchcraft it could be for anything random. Things were weird.

Answer 58

Alrighty then. Looks like i'll have some re-searching to do.
Its almost 3am here. I think im going to call it a day for me today, ill probably be back on here withing 8 hours or less if you two will be on then. Thanks for the help tonight gals :) @Ashleyisakitty @formerlyadinosaur

Answer 59

Thanks @Ashleyisakitty !

Answer 60

Goodnight and good luck!