In fact he becomes so angry that he tells Ophelia that he never loved her and that instead of marrying she should go to a nunnery rather then pass on her genes to children. At this point in the story, Hamlet makes it seem as if he is not interested in women anymore. For the readers perspective at this point in the story they are clue less as to the true feelings of Hamlet. Hamlet also does not have very much respect for his mother anymore. This may be why he has such a difficult time getting along with women.
The Role of Women in Hamlet In the tragic play Hamlet by William Shakespeare the title character’s lack of action due to an overly analytical personality, to avenge his father’s death leads to the unfortunate state of Denmark. The influence of the women, as seen in both Ophelia and Gertrude, as Hamlet avenges his father’s death, affected the characters closest to Ophelia and Gertrude and in doing so destroyed the state of Denmark. Shakespeare’s Hamlet uses the influence of women, Gertrude and Ophelia, to demonstrate the betrayal in characters’ lives and how the decisions of these women, lead to other characters ill-advised choices and thus moving the plot along. As the play begins King Claudius, Hamlet’s Uncle, addresses the Danish court regarding his recent marriage to Gertrude, wife of the deceased king and mother of Hamlet. This establishes the first enactment of betrayal in the play which is shown when Hamlet delivers his first soliloquy to the audience.
Consequently, he refers to her as “frail” (Act 1, Scene 2, line 146). It is apparent that Hamlet would have preferred to make decisions for his mother just because she is a woman. He does not trust her mother to make wise decisions even though she has been queen for quite some time. Ophelia, on the other hand, bears the brunt of male chauvinism as she is not allowed to choose for herself who she should love. Her father prohibits her from having a love relationship with Hamlet.
When Creon learns that Antigone has buried her brother, he becomes furious and sentences Antigone to death despite his son’s and Antigone’s fiancé pleading, as well as a warning from the prophet. But as the prophet for-told, the gods are on Antigone’s side and for Creon’s crime he loses his only son, Haemon and his wife. The begging of the play, Antigone has her sister, Isemen outside the city gates. Antigone is trying to get Ismene to help her bury their brother, Polyncies. But Ismene refuses to help her sister, fearing the death penalty installed by Creon.
His wife hated the family life, she wanted to be far away and to live her dreams. So she never played the mother role or wife role that she suppose to have been. It’s like Mr. Pontellier had to take her place and his place. Mr. Pontellier couldn’t do anything to make his wife happy, it discouraged him to see his wife behavior. For instance in one part of the story it says “Mr.
As soon as the nurse finds out that Tybalt is dead her reaction is very troubling and she doesn’t exactly know how to break it to Juliet so at the end result she says, “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.” (3.2.69-70). This quote is a literal and a grammatical structure because Juliet is very upset but angry as well, she is young and she doesn’t exactly known what to do in the situation. Romeo’s blamed for the death of Tybalt. Fat occurs again when Romeo comes to the understanding that Juliet is dead and he kills himself too. At the start of the play Romeo dreams that if he goes to
Lastly, they are both confused and mostly completely unaware of their surroundings. Through their deaths, Gertrude and Ophelia highlight the position of women within this tragedy; they are the victims of their male counterparts’ corruption and deceit. Ophelia, however, is more of a victim of her unfortunate death than Gertrude. The ideal woman from Shakespearean times differs greatly from an ideal woman in the twenty-first century. A young woman was expected to be delicate, polite and dependent on the men in their lives.
This is seen as disrespectful from Hamlets point of view throughout the play, as he never accepts Claudius to be a replacement to his father, and never really approves of his mother’s re-marriage. Hamlet also decides ‘to put an antic disposition on’, which was to give the impression that he was in a descent to madness. This is related to when Ophelia’s father Polonius warned her to stay away from Hamlet, and that she may be the possible cause of his mental incapacity. Hamlets develops this madness until the point that the reader doesn’t know what is the initial cause of it, and if it is real or false. Hamlet decided to take on the challenge of avenging his father’s murder, as the ghost instructed, as said ‘This time is out of joint.
She believes Hermia to be worthy of Lysander’s love rather than herself. Hermia states in the play to Lysander “Who will not change a raven for a dove?” (2.2.113) Helena appears to be a woman who does not value herself. Helena shows to be a woman who has very low self-esteem. She belittles herself in many parts of the play. Even after Demetrius declared that he hated Helena and that she made him sick, she still did not realize that she was being mistreated.
She is classified as an outsider, portraying that she is inadequate in having the ability to interact with others. Also, she blocks the ‘’rectangle of sunshine’’ - Steinbeck does this intentionally in order to allow the reader to pursue a sense of social misfit; as the men think she causes trouble and other than Curley, she has no other engaging connection with any of the other men. This produces the fact that Curley’s wife is marginalized and disempowered from society overall and has no relationship with others as she is seen as an ownership of Curley. Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 Paragraph 6 The importance of Curley’s wife in the novel is how she is revolves around the novels main themes such as dreams. Curley’s wife is excluded from female roles as she is seen as a possession of Curley and is often found in search for companionship, as her newly found husband doesn’t provide her with the affection she desires.