I am going to be focusing on the oppression of women in Hamlet, and how Shakespeare portrays women throughout this play. Here are some of the things that I will be talking about throughout my essay:
- How the women react to how they are treated (they do nothing about it).
- The position the women were put in....such as the queen in marrying the King. What would have happened if she hadn't married him?
- Hamlet's treatment of his mother.
- The difference with Hamlet's madness and Ophelia's. Ophelia was shown to have just turned into this lunatic who sings to herself and no one knows what is going on with her, and then in the end she winds up killing herself. Whereas with Hamlet, he isn't necessarily portrayed that way. He is shown to be noble and everyone still loves him. He has just gone a little off the deep end.
I am still needing to add a lot more key events and scenes but don't exactly know what all to use with this topic.
Toni,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting. This is a good topic--one which a couple of your peers are considering as well (which is fine). Rather than repeat what I've said on their posts, do me a favor and scroll down and just read those comments. Let me know if they prove less than helpful.
Thanks!