Instead of being respectful and a decent human being towards her, Hamlet decides to deny them being together and complains about the power of a woman in the world; how women can “paint another [face] on it.” You dance, prance and lisp; you call God's creations by familiar names, and you excuse your sexual ploys by pleading ignorance. » (Shakespeare 197). Hamlet continues to degrade her by inferring that she is a whore disguised as a pure virgin, which is also the first sign in the play that Hamlet and Ophelia had a more sexual relationship than would be considered the norm at that time and the first sign of its resemblance to a nymph