Hamlet: Women Flashcards
‘I’ll _____ my __________ to him’
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’
A2 S2
Ophelia to Hamlet during mousetrap scene:
‘I _____ _________, my ____’
‘I think nothing, my lord’
A3 S2
‘________ a ______ if you have it _____.’
‘Assume a virtue if you have it not.’
A3 S4 (Hamlet to Gertrude)
‘_____ hath _______ you one ____ and you ______ yourselves __________’
‘God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another’
A3 S1 (Claudius about women)
‘________, thy name is _______’
‘Frailty, thy name is woman’
A1 S2 (Hamlet)
‘Is thy ______ here? ________ my mother’
‘Is thy union here? Follow my mother’
A5 S2 (Hamlet)
“Ophelia is _________ of thought, _________ and language.”
“Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language.”
Showalter (20th)
‘The ________ in Hamlet are completely _____________ on ____.’
‘The women in Hamlet are completely dependent on men.’
Justin Rice (20th)
Ophelia’s madness in the Kenneth Branagh 1996 production
ACT 4 SCENE 5:
- Ophelia is laying on the floor, wearing a straight jacket and head strap
- Ophelia hysterically dances and sings to herself
(reflects her madness and insanity/shows her poor treatment within the court)
‘Ophelia literally has no ______ without ______’
‘Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet’
Lee Edwards (20th)
‘______, shall I ___ in your ____?’
‘Lady, shall I lie in your lap?’
A3 S2
- Hamlet mocking Ophelia, making her uncomfortable/objectified
- Sexualising Ophelia in front of audience
Relationship between Gertrude and the Player Queen
- Player queen serves as a mirror to Gertrude (highlighting stark differences between the women)
- Player queen remains faithful and commits herself to her husband unlike Gertrude’s betrayal of her ex-husband
‘The ______ doth ________ too much __________.’
‘The lady doth protest too much methinks.’
A3 S2 (Gertrude about Player Queen)
- Gertrude believes the PQ is speaking too gravely/solemnly
- She does not truly mean what she says/should not be believed
- Defending her own remarriage/immorality
‘Like a _________ native and _________ unto that __________.’
‘Like a creature native and induced unto that element.’
A4 S7
- Similie
- Ophelia better off in/tied to death
- ‘Creature native’ = Ophelia too pure/ethereal for the corrupt world of Elsinore
‘Gertrude, ___ not ______’
‘ I ____, my _____, I pray you ________ me’
‘Gertrude, do not drink’
‘I will, my lord, I pray you pardon me’
A5 S2
- ‘I will’ = imperative, Gertrude’s growth of independence/disobedience
- ‘Pardon’ her sin of death/sin of immorality (knowingly drinking poison)
‘___________ men is Gertrudes main ________’
‘Pleasing men is Gertrudes main interest’
Smith
‘She was trying to ________ her son from the man that ___________ her husband’
‘She was trying to protect her son from the man that murdered her husband’
Groff
‘The _______ was not a bad __________ woman’
‘The queen was not a bad hearted woman’
A.C. Bradley (19th)
‘They can be ___________ one-dimensional’
‘They can be frustratingly one-dimensional’
(Gertrude + Ophelia)
Clett
‘Oh my _______ Hamlet!’
‘Oh my dear Hamlet!’
- Gertrude’s last line
- Rare expression of her affection/care for Hamlet
‘Th’ __________ jointress to this __________ state’
‘Th’ imperial jointress to this warlike state’
(Claudius A1 S2)
- Suggests his marriage to Gertrude merely political/tactical
- Marriage of convenience
- ‘imperial jointress’=a widow who retains the jointure/life interest in the crow
‘innocent _______’
‘innocent pawn’ (Ophelia)
Salter (20th)
‘the _______, the beautiful, the ___________ and the pious’
‘the young, the beautiful, the harmless and the pious’ (Ophelia)
Samuel Johnson 18th
Name/Year and description of painting of Ophelia’s death
Everett Millais 1851
- Innocent, naturalistic death
- Ophelia is surrounded by flowers, her mouth is open as if she is singing
- Hands positioned in a prayer position
