Examples Of Sexism In Hamlet

One of Shakespeare's most well known scripts is Hamlet. In this script, there has been more than a few times, that Shakespeare has mentioned some iffy comments against the other sex. “Women are the breeders of sinners.” Shakespeare's view that all women are "breeders of sinners" not only reveals a sexist attitude but also suggest that Hamlet finds himself to be just as harsh as the corrupt world around him. Shakespeare hates women.

Some people believe that it’s simply art. The script isn’t meant to be taken literally. Actually, it is, because Shakespeare is so ahead of his time, we can conclude that a lot of the things he writes aren’t just for our entertainment, he’s also throwing some advice in there. The script is Shakespeare's reality,

Since Shakespeare is ahead of his time, he’s using topics, that today, would sound absurd to us, but this took places in the 1600’s. The problems that were mentioned weren’t actual issues back then. Act 3 scene 4 Hamlet says to Gertrude, “Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty, calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there, makes marriage vows as false as dicers’ oaths (Shakespeare pg 173).” The lead character in the script has no respect for his mother. Who would? She’s basically agreeing to take part in incest. In response to Gertrude's question, “What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue on noise so rude against me (Shakespeare pg 173)?” Hamlet says to his mom that she is breaking her marriage vows by marrying Claudius, and that she is a horrible person. Hamlet, really Shakespeare, is expressing his disgust and hatred for women in this scene. Gertrude replies, “O Hamlet, speak no more! Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul, and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct (Shakespeare pg 175).” It’s not up for debate that what she did was weird, but it was something that wasn’t uncommon in the 1600’s. People with power tend to like to “keep it in the family,” so for Shakespeare to add Hamlet's rage towards his mother in the script, shows just how upset he is by the

Ophelia was just a toy these men, Claudius, Laertes, and her own father Polonius, tried to use to get through to emo Hamlet. Her body was the only thing she had to offer, Hamlet even asked her what she brought to the table. Act 3 scene 1 Hamlet asks Ophelia, “Are you honest, are you fair? That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.” Ophelia then asks, “Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty (Shakespeare pg 131)?” In this masterpiece, Shakespeare has included countless subimal under the nose comments, about women throughout the entire story. In act 3 scene 1, Hamlet tells ophelia “get thee to a nunnery. Why would thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother not borne me ( Shakespeare pg 131).” Hamlet describes women as “breeders of sinners.” Because Shakespeare is such a literary mastermind, his critics often slip under our noses. Either we didn’t catch the message, or we caught the message but it ends up being