Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Hamlet Paper
Im not quiet sure what i want to write about but i think right now im going to go with women portrail. I am thinking of showing how Shakespear's characters treat women throughout the play. the way Hamelt treats ophelia and his mother are sometimes too aggresive and weird. i still really dont know if i like this topic. please let me know if you have any ideas or if you like this idea.
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I definitely think there would be a lot to write about and a lot of support from the book if you chose the portrayal of women. Using such lines like, "thy frailty name is women," (or something like that) you could display that Shakespeare thinks women are infereior to men. If you were to write about that, also talk about the time period and the fact that women really were not considered equal to men. In Ophelia's sense, her madness is much more dramatic than that of Hamlet's and think about what that is saying of her. She was a reasonable, intelligent women who all of a sudden becomes beyond mad to the point of killing herself. I would focus on Ophelia moreso than Gertrude because she is displayed as week and suseptable to anything whereas the Queen has a little bit more authority and respect. Hope that helps :)
ReplyDeleteCarla,
ReplyDeleteBecause we already had a chance to talk about this in class, I'm going to hold off on further comment until I get to see your first draft (and besides, this post is pretty danged short--not much to respond to here). This is a good topic, just keep in mind that you need to GROUND your analysis in the text itself, so your first order of business ought to be to go back and review those passages that you feel will be most useful to you in developing and defending your thesis regarding Shakespeare's portrayal of women.