Shakesspeare's views on women in Hamlet
...cause she marries within the family. Hamlet points this out several times within the book by describing the marriage as an “incestuous” act. Shakespeare is excellent at making the mother seem much worse during Hamlet’s soliloquy. His image of a bed with “incestuous sheets” would make the reader start to side with Hamlet and dislike the Queen. The second time when the Queen’s weak character shows is when Hamlet tells her the whole story about how his father was killed. He explains how bad it looks that she married his uncle so quickly, and how it upsets him so much. She is unable to handle the news that she begins to cry and begs hamlet to stop. This is seen as being weak because she cries over her own actions. Shakespeare uses a hyperbole to describe how much it hurt the Queen to hear what Hamlet thought of her. She says “these words are like daggers enter in mine ears.” Because Hamlet doesn’t stop and wont comfort her, she goes to the king for comfort. Ophelia is the second female character with problems in the play. She is highly influenced by the men in her life, which are Polonius, Laertes, and Hamlet. When her father tells her not too see Hamlet anymore, she agrees with no real argument. She supposedly loves Hamlet very much, yet her weak character will listen to the main man in her life, Polonius, and she wont see him anymore. Her frail character is seen again when she runs to her father after seeing Hamlet in his “antic disposition.” She was unable to handle the sight of seeing Hamlet, so she runs to her father for comfort. One of the last times that Ophelia’s character is very weak is when her father dies. Because she doesn’t want to be alone, she says how she is going to tell her brother immediately. The death of her father ev...