Women in Hamlet

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  • Role of Women Quotes
    • Ophelia
      • "Scanter your maiden presence
      • "Yes, my lord"
        • has too accept all orders
      • Young men will do ‘t if they come to ‘t, By **** they are to blame.
        • Hamlet's view on women
          • "Fraility thy name is woman"
            • Gertrude
              • The lady doth protest too much
          • get thee to a nunnery
            • Ophelia
              • "Scanter your maiden presence
              • "Yes, my lord"
                • has too accept all orders
              • Young men will do ‘t if they come to ‘t, By **** they are to blame.
                • Hamlet's view on women
                  • "Fraility thy name is woman"
                    • Gertrude
                      • The lady doth protest too much
                  • get thee to a nunnery
                    • incestous sheets
                    • “I have heard of your paintings too,God has given you one face and you paint yourself another”
                      • "it had made me mad"
                        • hamlet blaming ophelia for his madness despite it being "crafted"
                    • If thou wilt marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them
                  • suggests that hamlet and her had a sexual relationship
            • incestous sheets
            • “I have heard of your paintings too,God has given you one face and you paint yourself another”
              • "it had made me mad"
                • hamlet blaming ophelia for his madness despite it being "crafted"
            • If thou wilt marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them
          • suggests that hamlet and her had a sexual relationship
      • Critics quotes
        • a woman of exuberant sexuality,
          • Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language..she represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethans thought womanish"
          • Pleasing men is Gertrude's main interest
        • Context
          • Women viewed as virgins, mothers or whotes
            • Women were not seen as their people
            • were directly reliant on men for the position of power
              • could not make a living by themselves

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