Feminism in Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe:

Feminism in Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe:

Keywords: Courageous, Love, Loyalty

Abigale is honor of faminhood. She manfully helps her father in getting out the money quietly. She can’t do it openly but she manages it hiddenly. Courageously she comes with flying flags. Throughout the play she is honest and devoted to father and to convent.

However, Abigail is in many ways a romantic heroine whose relative goodness contrasts with the depravity of those around her like Jew and Christian. Love feelings are very personal feelings. Nobody likes to interfere in such feelings but she prefers her father and ignores her love passions.

Abigail is the only character who displays genuine love, loyalty, and selflessness in the play. Above all, she remains unmotivated by money and appears to have some kind of moral code. Abigail's dedication to Barabas is proved by her vow to remain loyal to him. She is brave and bold.

 Abigail remains doubtful about the virtues and vices exposed by the priests. She has complaints against the people around in world, in her house, in her family, political people and church people. She begins to believe that "there is no love on earth” , “Pity in Jews, nor piety in Turks,". James R. Siemon notes that Abigail undergoes a final recognition of her own predicament that is a feature of tragic drama. She sees no truth and faith in the people of church. She refers to is a religious or racial difference. Her father breaks her trust upon men. Again her father breaks her faith in love and family bounds.

However, Abigail is in many ways a romantic heroine whose relative goodness contrasts with the depravity of those around her—Jew and Christian alike. As with his other characters, Marlowe obscures Abigail's morals and motivations in order to complicate our responses to this character.