➔Name: Surbhi Gausvami➔Sem: 1➔Paper no: 1➔Subject: “ Feminist approach in play Hamlet”➔Enrollment no:2069108420170008➔Roll no: 32➔Submitted to: Dr. Dilip barad

Bhavangar university

➔ Feminism is known as the principle advocating social, political and all other rights equal to men.

➔ In the play Hamlet by william shakespeare many controversies arise from the text, one of which is feminism.

The influence of shakespearean era on the play.

➔ During the time of shakespeare authors were only men, their voices were baised in favor of a male point of view.

➔ In this era there must be one ideology that 'chaste and modest wife'

➔ The fact that England was not a patriarch in shakespeare's time may have promoted his interest in writing the of Hamlet in the way he did.

Feminist view points of the play 'Hamlet'

➔ Only two female characters in the play, Gertrude & Ophealia. Play focuses upon only male characters.

➔ Both the characters are potrayed as servants to men.

➔ Female characters are faithful and obedient to male.

ophelia

➔ Ophelia as the humble, obedient of his father and brother.

➔ Hamlet views ophelia as nothing more than an object for pleasure.

➔ “That's fair that to lie between maid's legs”

➔ Archetyple mad woman.

➔ “i think nothing my lord”

Gertrude

➔ Gertrude is also a victim of a woman being used by the men around her.

➔ “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 tinct”

Hamlet's perspective towards female characters

➔ Hamlet as misogynist.

➔ Hamlet's famous quotation for the women,

➔ “Frailty,thy name is women”