Hamlet Anti Feminist Analysis

In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, I have noticed that Hamlet and other male characters in the play were anti feminists. I choose this topic because it is different, and I dislike the way the two most important females in the play were treated throughout the play. I would also like to draw your attention to how Hamlet would consider his mother as a women who just wants love and affection and, shows no mercy for her son. One example would be how Hamlet felt displeased with his motherś wedding. He felt this way because she married her brother-in-law in less than two months after her husbandś death.
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! (I ii 136-137)
This quote shows emotion, disgust, disappointment,
anger, and madness towards his Gertrude and Claudius. All this emotion shown in this quotes was piled up on Hamletś depression. He was depressed because of his fatherś death. Hamlet could not tolerate what was happening.
In this play, there are a lot of male opinions and it was difficult for Gertrude and Ophelia to express their opinions. They were basically treated like trash, which quite frankly, was very common back then. Hamlet once said, frailty, thy name is woman!, (I ii 146.) Him saying this makes him look pathetic. In Hamlet’s eyes, he thinks his mother is weak because she is either defending Claudius or she is quiet and has no idea what is going on. She does try but just not enough for her know a little bit about everyone or the situations that are going on. Hamlet says in the play…
That it should come to this:
But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was, to this
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and Earth.
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on. And yet, within a month
Let me not think on 't; frailty, thy name is woman! (I ii 137-146.)
Hamlet here basically is disgusted by his mother for her sexual “appetite.” He blames her for that by remarrying with Claudius two months after Hamlet’s father passed.
Then all of a sudden he calls ALL women weak. I disagree with him. Not all women are weak. I mean many may be weak, but if they wanted to become greater, they would do something about it. I truly believe in equal rights. Everyone deserves the same treatment.
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A stallion! (2.2.611-616)
Here is another example of Hamlet being a jerk and saying how women are weak. Another thing is that he is rude, judgemental, selfish toward his mother. Yes, her mother did not make a wise decision, but she may have married Claudius for the Denver. A possible reason she married him was for Denver to have a ruler. In this paragraph, he compares himself to a woman, not a good average woman but a “whore.” I do not appreciate the way Hamlet treated Ophelia when Claudius and Polonius were just using her as bait so they could eavesdrop on their conversation. Hamlet If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a
Nunnery, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs
marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.