No Character In Hamlet Respects Women. Even Women Do Not Respect Each Other

Question 1

“When these tears are gone

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The woman will be out”

Question 2

Leverenz

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“Hamlets disgust at the feminine passivity in himself is translated into violent revulsion against women, and into his brutal behaviour towards Ophelia”

Question 3

Lyons

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Ophelia is marginalised into a character of “symbolic meaning”

Question 4

French theoretical criticism

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The woman is that which escapes representation in patriarchal language and symbolism

Question 5

Elaine Showalter notes that in Elizabethan slang

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“Nothing” was the term for women genitalia

Question 6

Coleridge

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“Ophelia feels too much and drowns in feeling “

Question 7

During the Reneissance, Ophelia may have been

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Diagnosed with hysteria

The patriarchal sphere in which Ophelia lives is associated hysteria with women as a means to contain female sexuality

Question 8

Lacan

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“The object Ophelia”

Question 9

Lacan

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” she is linked, forever, for centuries, to the figure of Hamlet”

Question 10

Ellen Terry’s debut as Ophelia’s in Irving’s production in 1878

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Acting Ophelia in feminist terms as a consistent psychological study