1. “Frailty,thy name is woman!”
Hamlet’s feministic
reading in this play

2. Hamlet is troubled
 Oh God, how weary, stale, flat, and
unprofitable seem to me all the
uses of this world. That is should
come to this, my father, not to
months dead, and yet within a
month, she married with my unclelet me not think on it!

Frailty thy name is
woman…………

3. Motif
 This motif of misogyny, or hatred of
women, occurs only sporadically
throughout the play, but it is an
important inhibiting factor in
Hamlet’s relationships with Ophelia
and Gertrude. He urges Ophelia to
go to a nunnery rather than
experience the corruption of
sexuality and exclaims of Gertrude

4. Woman in Hamlet’s life
Two woman are part of
Hamlet’s life
First woman in his life
mother Gertrude
Second woman in his life
beloved Ophelia

5. Gertrude
 Queen of Denmark
 Widow of king Hamlet
 Mother of prince Hamlet
 Newly married with new king
Claudius
 Gertrude is at her best in social
situations rounded personality

6. Ophelia
Beloved of Hamlet
Daughter of Polonius
Sister of Laertes

7. “Frailty,thy name is woman!”
This comment is as much
indicative of Hamlet’s
agonized state of mind .
We read in Hamlet or other
shekeshperean’s play the
condition of woman in
contemporary Elizabethan
age.

9. Ophelia
Ophelia’s character is a
mirror of a woman’s
impeccable beauty and
weakness.