hamlet

• hamlet is

  obsessive with the women in his life but ridicules all they do
• gertrude and ophelia are

  misunderstood characters
• gertrude has

  no political power, hence why she remarries so quick
• everything o does is for

  male validation as she needs to retain her social position
• polonius wonders

  if hamlets madness is to do with ophelia
• after polonius' death

  ophelia goes insane and sings nursery rhymes amongst flowers, behaving in an acceptable way, especially to men
• gertrude and ophelia are subject to

  sexual objectification and abuse. they experience dehumanising and cruel treatments
• hamlet constantly accuses both of them

  of lying and being fake
• (quote) ophelias virginity

  your chaste treasure
• (quote) hamlet is distraught by his mothers acions

  o most pernicious woman
• (quote)hurt her with words, instead of actions

  i will speak daggers to her but use none
• (quote) how weak and powerless woman are in the play

  frailty thy name is woman
• (quote) hamlets rage at ophelia, telling her to save her virginity

  get thee to a nunnery
• (quote) hamlet expressing his love, after shes dead

  i loved ophelia, 40000 brothers couldnt make up the sum of my love
• (quote)hamlet calling ophelia fake for wearing makeup

  god hath given you one face, and you make yourself another
• (quote)polonius to ophelia after she tells him about her relationship with hamlet

  you speak like a green girl