Women In Hammy Flashcards
Madonna- whore complex
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship.
Identified by Freud, said to develop in men who see women as either SAINTLY MADONNAS OR DEBASE PROSTITUTES.
Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (the whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner ( the madonna )
Madonna- whore complex
IN SEXUAL POLITICS/ FEMINIST CRITICISM
The view of women as either MADONNAS or WHORES limits women’s sexual expression, offering two mutually exclusive ways to construct a sexual identity
MALE critical view of GERTRUDE
KENNETH MUIR- “a moral defective”
T.S. Elliot- “negative and insignificant”
Dover Wilson- “sexually guilty”
GERTRUDE as a SEXUAL OBJECT
“Frailty, thy name is woman”
“O most pernicious woman”
“Nasty sty”
“My queen”
“Increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on”
“Whored my mother”
“Stewed in corruption”
“Couch for luxury and damned incest”
REBECCA SMITH
Gertrude’s actions are “as solicitous and unlascivious as her language… a quiet, biddable, careful mother and wife… compliant, loving, unimaginative…. only concern is pleasing others”
Ophelia
Morally compliant? “I will obey, my Lord”
Capable of irony- “Do not as some ungracious pastors do”
In love with Hamlet- “O what a noble mind is here o’erthrown”
Unstable?- “O woe is me/ T’have seen what I have seen, see what I see”
Insane?- “The owl was a baker’s daughter”
