In the William Shakespeare's tragic play, "Hamlet" which was first performed around 1609, Hamlet first tells Ophelia that women turn their husbands into "monsters." They cheated on their spouses (they are all unfaithful) and cause their husbands to act with jealousy. Then he also says in Act III, Scene I, lines 142 - 149, " ... God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. ..." In other words, Hamlet agrees with the idea that women should just be themselves. They should just look and act naturally.

Hamlet uses the artificiality of cosmetics ("paintings") as an analogy for why women use deception. Hamlet says fake behavior (playing dumb, walking, talking, and dancing in an affected way) is like makeup that covers a women's "face". It makes a woman appear to be something she's not. But while Hamlet says these things about women, does he really want them to just be themselves? From some of his actions in the play, something tells us that Hamlet wouldn't actually want women to be completely unadorned.

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