Women quotes

'frailty, thy name

is woman' A1S2 - misogynistic, generalising

'And keep you in the rear of your affection, out of the shot and danger

of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmasks her beauty to the moon' = the most modest maid is wasteful/lavish enough if she unmasks her beauty to the moon - O limiting her show of affection to H A1S3 - REPUTATION

'recks not his

own rede' - hypocrisy, rebellious A1S3

'Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep

the key of it' A1S3 - female submission, she hands ever the agency of her memory to Laertes

'if he says he loves you, it fits your wisdom so far to believe it as he in his particular sect and force may give his saying deed, which is no further than

the main voice of Denmark goes withal' A1S3

'Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain if with too credent ear

you list his songs, or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity' - misogynistic, puts blame on Ophelia for Hamlet and her actions, shameful, worth of Ophelia which her brother is set by A1S3, opening her chaste treasure to his wild and uncontrollable sexual urges

'Affection? Puh! You speak like

a green girl' A1S3

'Think yourself a baby that you have tane these tenders for true pay,

which are not sterling' P to O A1S3

'Be something scanter of

your maiden presence' - P to O A1S3 = be less available to men, spend less time with them

'Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers, not of that dye which their investments show, but mere implorators

of unholy suits' - A vs R, they may be dressed in good clothes but are really just pimps A1S3

'Look to't

I charge you' A1S3

'I shall

obey, my lord' A1S3

'O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain,

smiling damned villain!' A vs R, G described by H as malevolent and destructive A1S5

'as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet with... his stockings fouled, ungartered, and down gyved to his ankle...and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed

out of hell' - asyndetic listing increases pace, physically overwhelming but also mentally for Ophelia A2S1

'Mad for thy

love?' - all P cares about, not for his daughter, it is his first port of call, madness, all he cares is pleasing the king and queen A2S1

'He took me by the wrist, and

held me hard' A2S1 - Hamlet's unruly behaviour

'go with me, I will go seek the king.

This is the very ecstasy of love' He does not comfort his daughter A2S1

'have you given him any

hard words of late?' - blames O

'I shall

obey you' - submission, short and direct A3S1 (Gertrude to Claudius)

'are you honest?...Are you fair?...That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit

no discourse to your beauty' A3S1 A vs R - misogynistic, blames women for what G does- H to O - if a woman is truly virtuous (moral), she should not let anyone access her beauty

'I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face and

you make yourselves another' - makeup, portraying O as a prostitute, he's generalising that women are seductive + infantilised, deceitfulness of women according to H - 'frailty thy name is woman' A3S

'Get thee to a nunnery - why wouldst thou be

a breeder of sinners?' - Hamlet believes Ophelia needs to be cleansed/preserved as convents are a safe space for women A3S1

'be thou as chaste as ice, as

pure as snow' - purity, chastity - expectations of women A3S1

'marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters

you make them' A3S1 blame on women

'Tis brief my lord...As

woman's love' - utterly misogynistic, Hamlet again making generalisations as he probably only experienced this from Gertrude/Ophelia A3S2

'Do you think I mean

country matters?' sexual inuendo A3S2

'I think

nothing my lord' - 'nothing' reference to sexual genitalia A3S2

'for look you how cheerfully my

mother looks, and my father died within's two hours' A3S2, H losing sense of time, obsessed with his mother's 'seeming' and 'looks' A vs R

'The instances that second marriage move are base respects of

thrift, but none of love' - G marries to keep her social status, pragmatic rather than romantic A3S2

'The passion ending, doth

the purpose lose' - Hamlet's predicament, his passion is so much that he cannot kill Claudius, he is talking about a woman, passion = feminine weakness ---> Stoicism A3S2

'The lady doth protest too much

methinks' A3S2 G to H, dramatic irony

'I could interpret between you and your

love if I could see the puppets dallying'

'It would cost you a groaning to

take off mine edge' A3S2 - women cannot keep their passion/sexuality under control

'Almost as bad, good mother, as

kill a king and marry with his brother' - G complicit in OH's murder A3S4

'In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,

stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty' - animalistic, dehumanising, grotesque, female sexual desire as diseased, corrupted A3S4

'What shall

I do?' - G's submission here to H A3S4

'Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed, pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his

mouse, and let him for a pair of reechy kisses, or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers' - H putting G off C, filthy, disgust to sexuality seen through his description of their sexuality A3S4

'I will not

speak with her.' G about O A4S5

'Her speech is

nothing' - sexual inuendo connects her madness to female stereotypes , no use/substance in what she is saying A4S5

'as her winks and nods and

gestures yield them' A4S5, dismissive because she is a woman, not taken very seriously, diminishing what she says to mere gestures

'Pretty

Ophelia!' C to O, link to Millais painting, beautified in death A4S5, also C’s attempt to control her by subduing her

'He is dead and gone lady, He is dead and gone; At his head

a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.' A4S5

'Young men will do't if they come to't - By

Cock, they are to blame' sexually explicit A4S5, speaks truth

'There is a willow grows...fantastic

garlands did she make, of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples' A4S7 - beautified in death

'Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch

thick, to this favour she must come.' A5S1 H's obsession with appearances and female appearances

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