Shakespeare, Hamlet and the Roles of Women

In Elizabethan England - the plosive of William Shakespeargon - women were socially degraded and taught they were indifferent to men. In his play, settlement, Shakespeares perception is well displayed as women are ill-used and presented as inferiors; rejects that assist or hinder the action of men. Specifically, Gertrude and Ophelia are displayed as instruments of deceit, fragile-minded women with a dependance on men, and the cause for their take in source of maltreatment and degradation.\nGertrude around immediately falls on a lower floor the emotional spell of Claudius and allows herself to give way objectified, essentially neglecting her own word of honor. She does not try to rea intelligence with Hamlet and find the genuine reasons for his ruthfulness but instead allows for her son to be spied on by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, ignoring the needs of her own child. Gertrude lives an object used to spy on Hamlet when she ultimately gives in and allows Polonius, who has hidden pot a tapestry, to get wind to the conversation she has with her son. When the pansy states, Ill warrant you. Fear me not. Withdraw, I hear him coming (III.IV.9-10). it shows that Gertrude is to the full aware of the agency she is in and has agreed to allow Polonius to listen in to her son in his most vulnerable and mention state, considering his mindset. As a sweet mother she should have allowed her son the opportunity to vent his situation and problems in an intimate and stiff situation, but instead puts him in a predicament in which Hamlet unknowingly kills Polonius.\nSince Gertrude is a woman, she is victimized and portrayed as the cause of Poloniuss death. If she had not been comp unitarynt of the story we can coin that Polonius would have not been behind the tapestry and inadvertently killed. This concomitant also allowed Hamlet to be sent England, prolonging his revenge. Similar to Gertrude, Ophelia allows herself to become an object used to spy on Princ e Hamlet. His former lover, one who we can...