Gertrude's Treatment Of Women In Hamlet

There are two women in this play. Ophelia and Gertrude. They are in the highest position in their country. They are one of the most powerful in that country. Therefore, they have huge part and they play a very important part in this play. But, they are somehow treated differently than other male characters. Their parts are not very influential and their thoughts were usually left ignored. Both Ophelia and Gertrude were in extreme high position s in the country. Even though they were in high positions

interiority in the tragedy Hamlet (3.1.55). By orchestrating chaos, Shakespeare creates an environment in which the male characters; Hamlet and Claudius, are free to contemplate and express their respective natures. However, when it comes to Gertrude; Hamlet’s mother and initial instigator of Hamlet’s conflict, there is no interior examination. There is only vilification at the recognition of Gertrude’s sexuality, and the interior disruption that results from Gertrude’s decision to lay with Claudius

‘Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ continues to engage audiences through its dramatic treatment of the role of women’ through Shakespeare’s characterisation of Gertrude and Ophelia. Within my studies, I had interpreted the tragedy of Hamlet as universal and a critical discussion of women within Elizabethan England, a misogynistic time where man were deemed strong and independent in comparison to women who were deemed to be weak and dependent. From a modern perspective, Gertrude and Ophelia would be seen as

Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, the fiction was set in the Renaissance era and therefore the persona of women was reflective of that period. The natural stereotype of that time viewed women as weak, fickle, and dependent of the men in their society and subject to the decisions that men make for them. It was an exceedingly common depiction and very rarely was it proven wrong to the men of that time. Women’s rights were nonexistent in this time period so it wasn’t unusual for the portrayal of women to be so negative

sexuality was considered to be a very taboo topic. Women were modest and chaste creatures who did what they were told and lived their life virtuously until they were married off. This was of course a sexist double standard, but it was unfortunately the dominant view of the times. However, with the idea of women being able to possess power becoming more familiar while Queen Elizabeth was in power, Shakespeare used the play to continue to oppress Elizabethan women in an ever changing world. He used Ophelia

Although written over 400 hundred years ago, Hamlet remains a puzzling and complex play, partially due to the ambiguous Queen Gertrude. The Queen is a puzzling character as her motives are unclear and readers question her intentions throughout the play. Townsend and Pace in "The Many Faces Of Gertrude: Opening And Closing Possibilities In Classroom Talk" view her “as a simple-minded, shallow woman...who has no self beyond a sexual one” while Harmonie Loberg in "Queen Gertrude: Monarch, Mother, Murderer"

Coleridge states in his criticism of Hamlet that it is one of the most dynamic plays in all of Shakespeare's creations. The character of Hamlet is unlike any of Shakespeare's protagonist in that he is slow and methodical about his thinking and being. The author believes Hamlet is so caught up in his own thoughts he is unable to carry out any plan efficiently. Coleridge compare Hamlet's character to that of Macbeth to show the different contrast between the two plays. Macbeth represents many of Shakespeare's

insecurity about one’s self. However, as Freud evokes, the genesis of humans’ ideas and thoughts manifests from their unconscious. More specifically, one may think they know someone, and not know them at all. Likewise, in Shakespeare’s masterpiece “Hamlet”, Hamlet’s true motives are never explicitly revealed to the reader, rather they are hidden in the vast marsh of Hamlet’s antic-disposition. Indeed, it appears that Hamlet’s antic-disposition acts as a guise: covering up his true character. In fact

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, it is clear that Hamlet’s character is truly a puzzled one. It is no secret that Hamlet is displeased with his life and the relationships around him. William Shakespeare in evaluating Hamlet’s relationship with his mother Gertrude and lover Ophelia creates an interesting love-hate relationship. Gertrude and Ophelia both deeply care for Hamlet but he does not seem to recognize that love and is instead blinded by his father’s revenge. Throughout the play,

have heavily contributed to the misogyny Hamlet develops. Ophelia and Gertrude disappoint Hamlet which leads him to become a misogynist which