Women’s image and patriarchal practices in shakespeare’s hamlet and köksal’s sacide*
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2021
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1599-1601) and Ülker Köksal’s Sacide (1972) portray how women are victimized and marginalized by the prevailing patriarchal practices although they were written in different cultures at different times. The women in both plays are sentenced to live in an unjust, unequal as well as immoral world, and they are also oppressed politically, religiously, socially, psychologically and/or economically. Their roles as women are defined by the patriarchal social structure, and they are forced to play their roles as it is expected; or else, they are alienated or punished by the practitioners – that is, men or women who are indoctrinated to support patriarchy from the early ages – of this structure. Accordingly, the fundamental purpose of this paper is to explore the women’s image and the patriarchal practices in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Köksal’s Sacide from the viewpoint of feminist criticism. The introduction of this paper provides a general outline of feminist criticism, the perspectives toward women in the Elizabethan era and the 1970s’ Turkey, and their reflections on Hamlet and Sacide. Furthermore, it is displayed that women in Hamlet and Sacide are pictured as the victims of the patriarchal practices by being abused, objectified, marginalized or exposed to physical and/or psychological violence. In conclusion, it is emphasized how women in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Köksal’s Sacide are similarly devalued by the practitioners of patriarchy who expect women to be passive, powerless as well as submissive creatures and regard the women inclined to protest or rebel as threats to their patriarchal power system. Last but not least, this paper attempts to raise awareness about the value of women and the importance of writing and reading about women regardless of their culture, race, religion or language in accordance with the perspective of feminist criticism.
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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