“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life is hard. You’ve got to go out and beat it.”- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was a prominent woman who lead the way for civil rights and spearheaded women’s right and freedoms. These rights and freedoms that Maya is fighting for were previously non-existent. This deficiency of rights can be seen in the Shakespeare play Hamlet in which the few female characters have been treated as though they are less than the men of the play. The female roles are handled throughout the play as though they are betrayers and that they betray the men they wed. Women are also treated as though they cannot make their own emotional decisions and are frail in their character. Men in the play treat
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Hamlet notices that Ophelia is working in conjunction with her father and he calls her on saying …show more content…
Here, Hamlet is venting his anger that he has towards his mother and his step-father who both had gotten married hastily. He tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery so she cannot give birth to evil men like Claudius, who commit evil acts and so that she cannot marry and be faithful, which is where he believes his mother should have gone in order to avoid marrying his uncle. Hamlet also notices how she shows an innocent side to him, but under that she is a traitor to his love. Hamlet remarks “God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance” (3.1. 142-145). Hamlet tells Ophelia that God has given Ophelia one face on the outside, however, she makes another fake face that she shows to cover up her fake behavior and her lies. Hamlet's treatment of Ophelia clearly demeans in nature and shows how he views women as lower than men and that women should not be trusted under any circumstance, furthermore, these views that he holds do not only apply to Ophelia, but apply to other female characters in the play as
Hamlet notices that Ophelia is working in conjunction with her father and he calls her on saying …show more content…
Here, Hamlet is venting his anger that he has towards his mother and his step-father who both had gotten married hastily. He tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery so she cannot give birth to evil men like Claudius, who commit evil acts and so that she cannot marry and be faithful, which is where he believes his mother should have gone in order to avoid marrying his uncle. Hamlet also notices how she shows an innocent side to him, but under that she is a traitor to his love. Hamlet remarks “God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance” (3.1. 142-145). Hamlet tells Ophelia that God has given Ophelia one face on the outside, however, she makes another fake face that she shows to cover up her fake behavior and her lies. Hamlet's treatment of Ophelia clearly demeans in nature and shows how he views women as lower than men and that women should not be trusted under any circumstance, furthermore, these views that he holds do not only apply to Ophelia, but apply to other female characters in the play as