Question

A. How does Shakespeare, through Hamlet, depict women in the play?

b. Does Hamlet posture melancholy falsely or does he experience melancholy authentically?

c. Did Hamlet only feign madness, or did he in fact succumb to it?

Answer 1

Answer: A. In Hamlet there are two women. Gertrude and Ophelia. Throughout the play they are refereed to by the name "women" and are treated as if they are weak and frail. Depicting that through Hamlet there is often little to no respect for them.

B. Hamlet does experience true melancholy. He begins to experience both melancholy and madness because he is having trouble avenging his fathers death by killing the murderer.

C. Hamlet at first did feign his madness but he soon gave into it. He gave into the madness after thinking that the ghost was a trick being played on him by the devil.

Hamlet began to have "madness" as an affect from the melancholy.

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