LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Shakespeare’s Plays: Men Celebrated, Women Despised?

Rahul Singh, M.A. (English), NET

Introduction

Shakespeare, the bard of Avon, has created many tragic heroes, who are bestowed with numerous outstanding qualities, except for some tragic flaw. But as against his tragic heroes, the women characters in his tragedies seem to be designed, more or less as weak, treacherous, terribly naive, cruel, intriguing or stubborn individuals. In fact, in most of his tragedies, the women characters are made responsible, directly or indirectly, for the tragic end of the central character.

Heinous Crime by Gertrude

Gertrude, for instance, in the play, Hamlet, is depicted in a negative light. It is she, who lets Claudius murder her husband. But for her passive support, Claudius would not have dared to accomplish such a horrible task. Her son Hamlet feels so much disappointed with the conduct of his mother, that he generalizes the weakness present in his mother, to women in general. He observes, “Frailty, thy name is woman” (1.2.146). He uses this phrase, keeping in mind, the infidelity of his mother, as she marries the assassin of her own husband, soon after the death of her husband. Hamlet feels so much disturbed and agonized with the idea that a woman can stoop so low, as to marry a man, much beneath her husband, just to fulfill her sexual desires, that he generalizes that being frail and being a woman, are synonymous with each other.

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