role of women

Question 1

Quote from Romeo and Juliet with illustrates Shakespeare’s regard of father daughter relationships

Answer 1

• go to saint peters church or i will drag thee on a hurdle thither (capulet to Juilet)
• Doith she not give us thanks, is she not poud doth she not count her blest, unworthy as she is that we have wrought so worthy a gentlemen ti be her bride?

Question 2

Quote from Lear with illustrates Shakespeare’s regard of father daughter relationships

Answer 2

Cordelia: ‘you have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit, obey you, love you, and most honour you’

Question 3

Sir Thomas Elyot, The Boom Named the Governor 1531- quote on women

Answer 3

A man in his natural perfection s stromg in opinion, covetous of glory desirous of knowlege… the good nature of a women is to be mild, timourous, tractable, benign

Question 4

John Knox, ‘first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women’ 1558

Answer 4

weak, frail, impatient, feeble and foolish and experience hath declared them to be unconstant, variable, cruel and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment

Question 5

Conrnelius a lapide, Omnes divi pauli epistotlaas commentaria (1638)

Answer 5

women is an excellent ornament of men since she is granted to man not only to procrate childrn byut also in possesion and, as it were in dominionover which man may exercise his juristriction and authority

Question 6

Medieval chain of being

Answer 6

God, Angel, King, Man, Woman, Vegetable, MIneral

Question 7

What did the medieval chain of being mean for women?

Answer 7

-women came after man and before animal as it was believed that w=tehy wee of inferior intellect and morl understanding. As a result it was unacdeptable therefroe for a woman to boss or overrule her husband oir father

Question 8

Importance of Chastity in 16th cent

Answer 8

• security of society and peace of mind was dependant upon womens virginity before marriage as due to the patricial/ male herdetary society, men needed to be sure that their son was really their own and not someone elses bastard
• Virginity and chasity were linked to religion throigh the virgin mary and were regarded as being the ideal state for a womne. As a test of nobility of males as only the higher orders were thoight to be able to resit the temptations of flesh

Question 9

Shakespearean views on father daughter relationships

Answer 9

women were possesions, financially dependant on their fatehrs to whom they owed obedience a ddomestic labour, until they were handed over to their husbands, whom they had to honour kove and obey

Question 10

Key extracts in Hamlet in which the role of women is explored

Answer 10

• 1,3: Polonius and Laertes warning Ophelia against Hamlet
• 3,1: 90-162 when Hamlet insults Ophelia and questions her chastity
• 3,2: ‘country matters’
• 3,4: closet scene
• 4,5: Ophelia’s madness
• 1,5: ghost on Gertrudes sexual immorality

Question 11

what does Hamlet suggest as a reason for Gertrude loving/ having married Claudius (John Hunt)

Answer 11

• ‘Hamlet analyses in terms of corporeal disfigurement the moral depravity that reaches out from Claudius to all those who come under his sway
• Hamlet suggests that only some physical mutilation could account for such blindess, he says that gerturde has ‘eyes without feeling, feeling withiut sight, ears without hands or eyes, smelling ans all or but a sickly part of one true sense

Question 12

Elaine showalter on the impact of hamlets feminity

Answer 12

“Hamlet’s disgust at the female passivity within himself is translated into the violent repulsion of women and his brutal of Ophelia’