Hamlet also verbally abuses his former lover, Ophelia. Believing her to have betrayed him, with no proof, casts her out of his life and compares her believed treachery against him as her true self hiding underneath her makeup. Already fed up with his flimsy mother he decides to get rid of his ‘supposed’ whorish beloved by threatening to send her off to a nunnery (whore house). He sends Ophelia on an emotional rollercoaster, where he goes from convincing her he loved her to spitting that love right back in her face. Hamlet sees nothing wrong with this because his misogynistic society tells him there is nothing wrong with verbally abusing your girlfriend, but not giving Ophelia basic human rights to defend herself is where feminism is lacking
