Hamlet

Question 1

Elaine Showalter

Answer 1

“Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language. she represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethans thought womanish”-

Question 2

Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831)

Answer 2

“With the strongest purposes of revenge he is irresolute and inactive”

Question 3

C. Hazlitt

Answer 3

“his ruling passion is to think, not to act”

Question 4

Emi Hamana

Answer 4

“Suffers a series of patriarchal oppressions”

Question 5

Eli Siegal

Answer 5

“Ophelia is one of the least self-critical beings imaginable”