Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

LAERTES: Therefore I forbid my tears: but yet
it is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,

The woman will be out. (Hamlet; Act IV, vii)

The word woman most likely means as used in the excerpt above.

female pride
female dominance
female aggression
female weakness

Answer 1

• Female weakness •

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt portrays Laertes as forbidding herself to cry. This is an emotional matter of pride. The character states that after the custom is gone the weakness of crying will present itself.

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