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A 6 page essay that discusses the way in which Shakespeare portrays father/daughter relationships. Generally speaking, these relationships can be characterized as loving, with the father taking an appropriate attitude toward his daughter. However, in understanding this relationship within the cultural context of Shakespeare’s era, the Elizabethan perspective on gender roles and the manner in which patriarchy was regarded needs to be considered as this was a integral factor in the way the father/daughter relationship was understood at this point in history. Examination of “King Lear” and “As You Like It” indicates how a father/daughter relationship is a crucial component of each play. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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an appropriate attitude toward his daughter. However, in understanding this relationship within the cultural context of Shakespeares era, the Elizabethan perspective on gender roles and the manner in which patriarchy
was regarded needs to be considered as this was a integral factor in the way the father/daughter relationship was understood at this point in history. Examination of "King Lear" and
"As You Like It" indicates how a father/daughter relationship is a crucial component of each play. Gender roles during Shakespeares era, i.e., the Elizabethan age of the late sixteenth
century, were strictly structured. It was held that there was a divinely-ordained hierarchy to societal structure. An aspect of this structural framework is that patriarchy was considered to be a
societal pattern mandated by God. The Elizabethans believed that, as a child, allegiance was owed to the father. As a wife, they believed that a womans allegiance should be transferred
to a husband, and should be offered be offered in manner similar to the unquestioning allegiance that men owed to their monarch and to God (Berek 359). At the end
of As You Like It, Rosalind, in order to restore the established order, "invokes the magic of Hymen to restore a patriarchal ideal" (Berek 359). Considering this, it is not
surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is perceived as being both "alluring and threatening" both to
Shakespeare and his Elizabethan audience (Berek 359). Therefore, in "As You Like It," Shakespeare sidesteps the issue of Elizabethan gendered notions of what constitutes proper decorum for a woman
by having Rosalind cross-dress as a man (Berek 359). By having Rosalind assume the identity of a man, she is allowed, temporarily at least, to act in manner that is
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