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that there is always more to learn about them. This paper considers Hamlets views on women. Discussion Its clear that Hamlet distrusts women, less clear whether or not he likes
them. There are only two women in the play: Ophelia, Poloniuss daughter, and Gertrude, Hamlets mother, who is now married to his uncle. If we go by just the lines,
it would seem that he despises them both: he tells Ophelia that God gave her one face but shes made another for herself, and his conversations with his mother are
almost obscene, consisting as they do of him berating her for her sexual relations with her new husband. A reader may legitimately ask why a young man-he is after
all a college student-should be so revolted by the expression of marital love in a physical way. He is old enough to have had sex himself (the text will support
the idea that he and Ophelia are lovers) so his objections to his mothers sex life seem overdone and grotesque. He sounds almost like a jealous lover. Granted, his fathers
death and his mothers remarriage, and in particular, her marriage to his uncle, take place in quick succession, but it still seems that his objections are overblown. When Ophelia
talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds like a typical love affair: "He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders /
Of his affection to me" (I.iii.100); this she says to her father, who replies "Affection, puh! You speak like a green girl..." (I.iii.101). In other words, hes saying shes na?ve
to believe Hamlets shows of affection, and reminds her that hes young as well as the Crown Prince. Hes implying that Hamlets "tenders" are driven by the simple sexual desire
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