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How does Shakespeare use Ophelia and Gertrude to showcase what women's lives were like during his time?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Shakespeare's hamlet women's girls Alas How
- 00:12
does shakespeare use ophelia and gertrude to showcase what women's
- 00:15
lives were like during this time So all of this
- 00:18
is to say that shakespeare in this plate is representing
- 00:21
a situation for women that was very riel they're both
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- 00:24
kind of cornered and every time we kind of try
- 00:27
to judge their actions like for example try to judge
- 00:29
ophelia for letting herself be used as a pawn letting
- 00:32
them spy on hamlet while she's talking to him or
- 00:35
only judge gertrude for like maybe letting her new husband
- 00:40
her oval husband or like being a bad mother to
- 00:43
hamlet in lots of ways every time we come into
- 00:45
these judgments were also reminded that they have so few
- 00:48
options right there just trying to make the best of
- 00:50
a bad situation when they're constantly being pushed around right
- 00:54
So for example gertrude we don't think really asked for
- 00:59
her first husband to be killed so her options there
- 01:01
are really uncomfortable right Either she can reject her new
- 01:05
husband and throw the whole you know all of denmark
- 01:08
into further turmoil or she can accept it and kind
- 01:11
of be seen as too loose of a woman They're
- 01:15
also there have been some suggestions that at the outside
- 01:17
of the play hamlet blames his mother more than he
- 01:20
blames claudius he's really angry at his mother And that
- 01:22
maybe if ghost hadn't shown up and said that claudius
- 01:25
was a fault that he would have gone after his
- 01:28
mother So his mother is always in jeopardy And hamlet
- 01:30
also kind of indirectly seems tto kill or contribute to
- 01:34
the death of ophelia So people interpret this differently Either
- 01:37
Shakespeare is showing us that gertrude and ophelia like really
- 01:42
are victims here or he's actually playing into this fiction
- 01:46
that they are kind of devious people not to be
- 01:48
trusted that they don't really have a strong backbone because
- 01:51
it's true that neither of them do Neither of them
- 01:53
make kind of upright moral choices They're both kind of
- 01:55
just pushed around How does shakespeare use ophelia and gertrude
- 02:03
to showcase what women's lives were like during this time 00:02:07.33 --> [endTime] No
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