The female characters of "Hamlet".?

Well, feminism has obviously failed. I was young when America first started accepting the fact that women could think for themselves and see who is and who isn't strong-wiled, without basing it on gender. 50 years later and you've read the play, but still cannot see strength or weaknesses in women, no matter what kind of society they lived in? Feminism has failed. Bummer. I had hopes it took.

Just Ophelia for this response. Why not take a closer look at Polonius' admonitions to his son, Laertes. Ophelia is on stage during this moment and of course hears what her father is saying. Is it possible that Polonius is speaking to both his children, not only his son? Is it comprehensible that some of his thoughts are aimed at his daughter and her ill-advised infatuation with the Prince? How does Ophelia respond to the directives that her father offers? There are clues here for her addressing what her father conceives to be an inappropriate attachment. Now, look at the moment in the play where Hamlet insists upon lying in Ophelia's lap (Do you think I meant Country Matters). Is this Ophelia "weak"? Is she in control of her life? Keep in mind that when Hamlet charges that Ophelia get herself to a nunnery, his words have a double meaning: "nunnery" in Shakespeare's times was a euphemism for a brothel. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" her father tells her. What options are available to her? Does she have a desirable future? Or is her death by drowning not an act of insanity as conceived by many but instead a logical act of a strong-minded woman? After all, she bestows upon others plucked flowers and other signets of nature. It is touching that her gifts are what she is herself: a plucked flower. Before you go this direction too far, explore how suicide is viewed by the Danish society of the 16th century. It was taboo! If Ophelia chooses her own death, she is indeed a strong-willed woman, one not of her own times but of times that were yet to be. To proclaim or dismiss Ophelia as weak-minded or victimized by the men in her life demeans who she really was.

It's an interesting questions and I would say that both women are strong on some levels and very weak on others. Let's take a look at Ophelia first:

Ophelia is more of weak person than a strong one. Although she affirms her feelings for Hamlet and argues with her brother Laertes and father Polonius about it, she did allow Hamlet to have sex with her (something that would have made her seem ruined, as being a virgin at marriage was important) this is perhaps could be argued as a weakness, however it could also be argued that it was her decision. Ophelia also ends up insane and dead, if anything tells us how weak she was, it is this.

Hamlet's mother Gertrude is more complex. Her marriage to Claudius was for political reasons, it was the keep the country running and Hamlet's family ruling. To keep their line going. It could be argued that this was a strong decision to make, and I would certainly argue that it was, as it put her relationship with her son at risk. She did it because she felt that it was neceassry. However she is weak in many other aspects, she does not reassure her son, she allows Claudius to take charge and submits to him. She chooses Political over Domestic. However at the end of the play she does indeed choose her son. In the final scene she changes 'our son' to 'my son'. She wants Hamlet to win the sword fight. She chooses her son (Domestic) over Political (Claudius) and therefore this shows her eventual strength, but she also ends up dead from being poisoned to the very man to whom she submitted to.

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