Name : Alpa Ponda
Course: MA
Semester: 1
Batch: 2016-2018
Roll No : 4
Enrollment no : 2069108420170025
Submitted to: SMT.S.B.GARDI DEPT OF
ENGLISH
MKBU
Email ID: alpaponda.7@gmail.com
Paper No :1
Topic :READING
HAMLET FROM FEMINIST APPROACH
READING
HAMLET FROM FEMINIST APPROACH
William Shakespeare (26 April, 1564-
23 April 1616) was an English poet, play wright and actor.He is also called
England’s national poet, and the Bard of Avon. He is the greatest playwright of
his time, a person who broke the unities which were followed by the tradition,
who gave a new form of play. He has written comedy, tragedy and historical
plays.
Hamlet
Hamlet is a tragedy written by
Shakespeare. Hamlet is a story of the character Hamlet. It is a tragic end of
character Hamlet. The writer depicts the incidents that how the tragedy comes. The
character Hamlet is one, who is full of philosophical thoughts and his mindset
is preventing him to take any action against the crime and he made an object to
female for his furry. Here we are going to study feminist approach in Ham
let.
FEMINISM
Feminism is a political movement,
movement of ideology and social movements, the common goal is to define,
establish and achieve political, personal and social rights for women. The
rights are telling to make or establish equal opportunities for women in
education and employment. It also includes the right to vote, to work and to
get equal vegs.
HISTORY
OF FEMINISM
Simone de Beauvoir wrote the first time.
We see a woman takes a pen in defence of her sex. Was Christine de Dieud’ Amour
(Epistle to the God of Love) in the 15th century.
FEMINISM
A person who supports feminism.
DEVELOPMENT
OF INEQUALITY
I think it became the way of life when
a woman grows. People often make her realize that she is a woman and she is an
inferior to man. It is the social structure where from the days of school all
learn there types of example in texts.
RAM IS EATING.
SITA IS COOKING.
It showcases the difference of their
routines or their living lives, either identifying her as human but we making
them girl. A human when at the born ,does not have the idea of gender. But with
the style of their growing the born baby becomes a boy or girl .In this play,
we are studying women characters and their atmosphere. And the treatment given
by males to female in the play Hamlet’. And what are the aspects which makes
the women inferior in the play.
STUDYING
FEMALE CHARACTERS IN HAMLET
In ‘Hamlet’, Shakespeare defines the
position of female characters of his time. While we discuss about a woman’s
status either of historical or present. It is the same in treatment if ways are
changed. The female characters of ‘Hamlet’ are mainly characterized as inferior
to male. The main female characters of play are Gertrude and Ophelia.
These are the characters having fear
in some corner of their heart. The fear of living, the fear of love, that’s why
they want to predecease their fear. They want men in their life. As we see
Gertrude hastily marries to Claudius and Ophelia many times abused and
humiliated by Hamlet,she wants her love. It shows man protects a female in
anyway of life if it is tragic situation or happy moments.
Gertrude
The appearance from the beginning of
Gertrude is fascinating us. She is the wife of king Hamlet but after king’s
death, she hastily marries to king’s brother
Claudius, here the hastily marriage is not accepted by her son Hamlet
mentally. As we see per Hamlet’s views,
Gertrude is shallow and thinks only about her body and external pleasures.
“The Humaliation of female character
by her own son;in the play”
The death of Hamlet’s father
‘o ’erhasty marriage’ of his mother to his uncle Claudius so threaten Hamlet’s
ego; he becomes the man of action not for his enemies but he uses his power to
humiliate. His mother. Hamlet directs fury toward his mother. Gertrude becomes
an object of competing male desires.
Carolyn expressing herself well
throughout the play. She is a solicitous of Hamlet, asking him to sit near her
to give him a sense of belonging to the new court and her speech to Laertes
upon Ophelia’s death is a model of Decatur and sensibility, one instance in
which her usual directness would not be appropriate. In this play, rare
character has the ability of reality. Gertrude is one of them it is her
Ability to see reality clearly and to
express it.
While we study the act 3 in play,
Hamlet has furies on his mother. As Hamlet rails against his mother and even
violently seizes her. She cries,
“ Thou welt not murder me?” she
betrays no knowledge of the murder. “ what have I don’t that thou dar ’st way
thy tongue/ in noise so rude against me? She asks. Hamlet denounces her sexual
passion and she replies: “O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn’st mine eyes into
my very soul,/ and there I see such black and grained spots/ as will not leave
their tint.”
Heilbrun sums up Gertrude character by
saying
“ if she is lustful, is also intelligent, penetrating and gifted.”
We can say that after Hamlet’s death.
She feared of her life and she is honest enough to admit that sex had something
to do with it.
After studying the character of
Gertrude we can conclude that the decision of hastily marriage. It can be taken
into consideration that a female does not want to be alone or she does not feel
perfect without male or a female has fear of something and male is a power and
she wants to be with power.
Ophelia
Ophelia who loves Hamlet, a sweet and
innocent young girl, she also becomes victim of Hamlet ( THE MALE NATURE). She
is dependent on men,his brother and father. She is an obedient person also. Here
we find that the character of Ophelia is not as important as her representation
of dual nature of women in the play. Ophelia’s distinct purpose is to show at
once Hamlet’s view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and
virtue of women.
OPHELIA DEPENDENT ON MEN
When Ophelia’s father finds that she
loves Hamlet. But Polonius, knows the
nature of Hamlet so Polonius warns her not to meet Hamlet and she can
not get letters from him and Ophelia does it so. She obeys the order of his
father as per feminist point of view, Ophelia is full of surrounded by male
characters and also she obeys them and I think, she herself understands that
she is inferior to male and she lives in that way. Another instruction also is
given by Laertes, his brother to Ophelia and he warns Ophelia about Hamlet’s intentions.
RELATIONSHIP
OF HAMLET AND OPHELIA
Ophelia agrees to Hamlet that she
loves him but when we come on Hamlet we can not give a decissio0n it is like
“ TO BE OR NOT TO BE”
Hamlet himself also does not know
either he loves her or not.
OPHELIA
BECOMES VICTIM OF MALE POWER
We can have action of Hamlet when he uses
his power on Ophelia. The main target of Hamlet should be Claudius for his
action but he can’t so. He greets Ophelia as ‘nymph’, Hamlet asks her to pray’
for him but then begins to berate her savagely, the first time he has really
let his emotions go in front of someone else. He wants to know if she is
‘honest’ as well as ‘fair’ and shouts.
GET THEE TO A NUNNERY
The abusing word is said by Hamlet.
This shows that a male has no value of women if she mistakes or not male puts a
question on her character. As we know the character of male at which cost it is
pure or not. Ophelia after listening abusing words for her by her love,she
recalls the memory what his brother said to him about Hamlet then leaves her.
Both female characters are merely male
possessions and both female characters have unequal expectations of virtue and
‘Obedience’ enforced on them by the male characters.
FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN.
This sentence shows the man’s cruel behavior towards women. Woman has to suffer because she is a woman.
STRUCTURE
OF ONE’S GROWING UP
Ophelia is very well saved by her
father and brother. She is not involved with matters of state: she spends her
days no doubt engaged in needle-pig and flower gathering. How is her
development.
HER CHARACTER IS THAT OF SIMPLE
UNSELFISH AFFECTION.
As per feminist view it is not left
but to say.
‘WOMAN IS NOT BORN HUMAN MAKES
WOMAN.’
CONCLUSION
While concluding feminist approach in
Hamlet, the female characters of ‘Hamlet’ are represented as the using object of
men. They go through the worst experiences even if there is no mistake of fault
of them. They have to suffer the results given by so called man.
No comments:
Post a Comment