The most admirable one?
2006-11-11 17:00:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You have to ask? Let me tell you, I still get sympathy and admiration cards from both Cordelia and Ophelia. What does that tell you?
2006-11-11 17:16:15 · answer #1 · answered by desdemona othello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fine question. The man who wrote "Shakespeare's" works was not a Renaissance individualist at all. He was someone older, educated in Late Medieval thinking. He liked women, admired their minds, but thought them emotionally unsteady and frequently said so. His most admirable heroine is certainly not Ophelia or any other weakling. It's someone courageous, such as Miranda in "The Tempest".
2006-11-11 18:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Portia in Merchant of Venice
2006-11-11 17:34:07 · answer #3 · answered by ladybird 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Portia in the Merchant of Venice. She gets to play a lawyer and give that famous speech "The quality of mercy is not strained..." And she gets her man.
No simpering weakling is she. She's a clever lady with courage -- she gets my vote.
2006-11-11 17:22:31 · answer #4 · answered by Roswellfan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cordelia in King Lear
2006-11-11 17:02:56 · answer #5 · answered by Didgeridude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Portia - The Merchant of Venice.
2006-11-11 19:01:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ophelia
2006-11-11 17:20:49 · answer #7 · answered by antigone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that Lady Macbeth, although at the end goes crazy and commits suicide because is ridden by guilt, was a strong character, not a likable one though. She pushes her husband to commit murder and we know that she would have done it in a second as well.
2006-11-11 17:17:25 · answer #8 · answered by rachell 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Juliet,went trough so many things for her love,for Romeo and in the end she killed herself beside Romeo's body.
2006-11-12 00:30:51 · answer #9 · answered by black_cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rosalind in As You Like It.
2006-11-11 17:34:29 · answer #10 · answered by Southbaymax 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋