Although at the present time gender issues are not a major deal, they were in the days when WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE and Romeo and Juliet took place. People living in those times were sensitive about the topic of gender. A woman living in the Middle Ages did not live the same life as one living now a day, and was not treated the same way as a man. The same goes for a woman …showed first 75 words of 654 total…

…showed last 75 words of 654 total…suspicious about the returned Martin being an imposter, she went ahead and had a child with him. Even though she was constantly raving about how she had sinned against God, she still thought there was something about the mystery of not knowing whether he was Martin or not that stopped her from immediately stopping their relationship. These things, although they are not as severe as Martin’s wrongdoings, make Bertrande seem imperfect like her husband.