Subversion and perversion are both highlighted in Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Jew of Malta through many mediums. Subversion involves opposition to societal norms and authority, while perversion occurs when morality and religious views are contradicted. The use of religious symbolic objects, mockery, sexual innuendo, hypocrisy and irony are the central themes used to express perversion and subversion in this essay. Often, when a reader or audience is shocked by themes and incidents that occur in plays, it is due to a feeling evoked when faced with open opposition to religion, morality, to politics and society. Two gentlemen from Verona use mockery of upper-class pretension, crude and inappropriate sexual innuendo to subvert and pervert the theme of marriage. Launce continually speaks of his master in a disrespectful manner, overturning the classical European social class order that servants must speak of their superiors with deference and hold them in the highest esteem. This upsets the social hierarchy through the use of mockery which devalues ​​the class of its master. My interpretations lead me to believe that the significance of this scene may well be in fact a metaphorical significance. In other words, the stick is the code for Launce's phallus. This is a subversion in the sense that it is socially unacceptable to speak in this way, therefore it contradicts corporate etiquette, and it is also a perversion because it is morally incorrect and sacrilegious to use a tool typically religious as a phallic symbol. When Launce says, “My team understands me,” he is comparing his masculinity in sexual terms to intelligence. He tells Speed ​​that his sexual drive and desire includes what he says, even middle of paper... The crucial element that brings these pieces together is the mutual use of a symbolically significant object. In other words, the staff. The staff are disgraced by the manner in which they were given roles in the plays. Although ambiguous, the staff appears to be a metaphorical phallic symbol in The Two Gentlemen of Verona used to crudely convey Launce's views on marriage. Conversely, in The Jew of Malta, it is used in a most blasphemous sense – with the aim of mocking the Christian faith. Faith is ridiculed when the stick is used satirically to "support" the dead brother and when Jacomo uses it with the intention of committing murder. This is explicitly ironic. Thus, this essay has shown how irony, hypocrisy, mockery, and sexual innuendo all serve the same purpose in these plays: to challenge society by subverting and perverting moral, religious, and political codes..