This presentation is my academic presentation , The Renaissance Literature and i submitted to Mk Bhavanagar University ,Pro Dr Dilip Barad.

1. Feminist Approach in Hamlet
 Paper No:1 The Renaissance Literature
 Prepared by :Mehta kavita dineshbhai
 Semester:1
 Roll No:18
 S.B Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnkumarsihji Bhavangar University.

2. Introduction
 The tragedy of ‘Hamlet’,
prince of Denmark.
by William Shakespeare.
 Hamlet the first in Shakespeare
series of great tragedy.
 Hamlet focuses on the
complication arising from love ,
death and betrayal.
 This play was dramatises the
revenges prince hamlet is called
to wreak upon his uncle.

3. William Shakespeare
 William Shakespeare (1564- 1616) was
an English poet,playwright,and
actor.
 He was the greatest writer in the
English language.
 Femail character in Shakespeare's
drama.
 In ‘Mackbeth’ Lady mackbeth .
 She was force his husband to kill the
king.

4.  ‘As You Like It’ In this Heroine face many
difficulties.
 Shakespeare drama women character are
very beautiful.
 But in the Hamlet both are the woman are
feeble.

5. Femail character in Hamlet
Gertrude Ophelia

6. Gertrude
 She was queen and Hamlet’s mother.
 Lack of vice and willingness.
 Silences for the king and full of fault’s pride and lust.
 Her role like loathsome ,and a trust worthy person and
Femail weakness.
 He drink poisoned.
 Gertrude made whore by Claudius.
 His nature sensous and he loved luxurious life.

7. Ophelia
 She was Polonius daughter.
 Beatiful,faithful and obedient.
 Lovely and innocent girl.
 Totally depended on male character,epitone of
goodness.
 She love her father and brother and subservient to
father.
 Pawn and possession used by all the men in her
life.

8.  Ophelia was died
drowning in the river
amid garlands.

9. Feminism “ Feminism is a range of political movements ,ideologies,
and social movments that share a common goal, to define
,establish and achieve political,economic,personal and social
rights for woman.”
 It is a responder’s perspective of a text which is focused on:
- Woman’s role and value in society as portrayed through
texts.
- Woman as a construct through literature.
 Hamlet ,delaying and attacking the feminine ia a handy
substitute for avoiding claudius.
 Hamlet’s loathing of Gertrude and of all feminine subjects
as well,including at times his own self.

10. continues….
 Claudius has tell his wife Gertude:
“Our sometimes sister, now our queen…with
mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage”.
 Gertrude’s body was the literal and symbolic ground of
all the conflicts in the play, her body and soul are
contested by her son,husband,and courtiers.
 Ophelia ia a more sympathetic and more reliable
character compared to her hypocritical brother and
scheming father.
 Hamlet ends by accusing her and all women of making
monsters of man.

11. continues….
 In Bed Chamber scene we sense between Hamlet and
his mother has been put of as long it can when he
bursts in to her chamber and attacks her verbally ,
physically.
 The crisis of fathers and sons and sons and mothers is
over,and the world of male political power is restored.