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A 5 page paper which examines whether or not Prince Hamlet’s treatment of women in the play qualifies him as a hero. No additional sources are used.
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young man is a prisoner of his impetuous moods, and more often than not, it is the women in his life who bear the brunt of his considerable frustration.
Hamlet seems to regard women not as fragile flowers, but as thorns in his psyche. This is reflected in his complex relationships with his mother, Queen Gertrude, and his
lover, Ophelia. Although Hamlets anger at his mothers remarriage to his uncle Claudius shortly after King Hamlets murder is certainly understandable, he acts more like a jealous lover
than an anguished son. He implies that her immorality has defiled his fathers memory, exclaiming, "A little month, or ere those shoes were old / With which she followed
my poor fathers body / Like Niobe, all tears- why she, even she / (O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mournd longer) married with
my uncle; / My fathers brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules. Within a month, / Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears /
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, / She married. O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" (I.ii.147-157) Hamlets rage spews over
in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed / Stewd in corruption, honeying
and making love / Over the nasty sty" (III.iv.90-92). In these instances, Hamlet makes it clear that women have no right to actively pursue sexual pleasure. Rather, their
role should be limited to serving men as wives, mothers and lovers, dispensing sexual favors only when asked. When her husband died, Hamlet expected Gertrude to live the rest
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