Hamlet- Women

Question 1

First point for presentation of women

Answer 1

Expectations for female purity

Question 2

Quote 1 purity-

Answer 2

“violet in the youth of primy nature” natural imagery

Question 3

Quote 2 purity-

Answer 3

“chaste treasure”

Question 4

Quote 3 purity-

Answer 4

“get thee to a nunnery”

Question 5

Critic- “deprived of thought sexuality and language”

Answer 5

Showalter

Question 6

Critic- “youth, beauty and purity”

Answer 6

Rogers

Question 7

Quote 4 purity-

Answer 7

“Whore’d my mother”

Question 8

Quote 5 purity-

Answer 8

“virtue” “blessing” “confess” - motif of religion

Question 9

Quote 6 purity-

Answer 9

“i see such black and grained spots” Gertrude as a moral defect, she acknowledges the impurity

Question 10

Context for purity?

Answer 10

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 11

Second point

Answer 11

Female characters gaining redemption and agency through death

Question 12

Quote 1 for agency-

Answer 12

“Pray you mark” use of commands

Question 13

Quote 2 for agency-

Answer 13

the flowers, symbolism, allows Ophelia to have agency

Question 14

Quote 3 for agency-

Answer 14

“I will my lord” rejection of Claudius allows Gertrude to be redeemed

Question 15

Critic 1 for agency-

Answer 15

Hamlet as a means to “remake is mother”

Question 16

Critic 2 for agency-

Answer 16

“through madness Ophelia makes a forceful assertion of her being” Showalter