Gender construction is a complicated area: today contrasted with the past, women contrasted with men, and rules contrasted with practice. Knowing and practicing every social rule for each sex is an exhausting and impossible task. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night demonstrates many of these social practices and often questions their authority. Irene Dash discusses many of these social violations in her article “Challenging Conventions: Twelfth Night,” as does Jonathan Crewe in his “Introduction to Twelfth Night”. …showed first 75 words of 1235 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1235 total…themselves disconcerted when a woman attempts to initiate contact. The female’s reluctance to end a relationship due to her supposed reliance on the strong male figure can also be observed and even experienced prevalently today. Yet society is admirably moving away from these ancient concepts and on into a culture that truly puts men and women on equal footing. I look forward to both the growth of society and to taking those steps myself.