Women: Victims of Society Since the birth of society, women have been placed in socially inferior roles. Society have established a woman’s inherent nature to be fragile, obedient, and naive. In the play, Hamlet, Shakespeare reflects and addresses this ideology through the portrayal of the two main female characters, Gertrude and Ophelia, as victims and tools of manipulation. Throughout the play, women serve as assets that acquiesce to every command made by man. Ophelia, in particular, becomes
literature is most commonly defined as the environment and familiarities that influence and affect how people interpret or perceive events, objects, or other individuals around them. In Williams Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the young prince’s world is collapsing precipitously in front of his eyes as the currently deceased King Hamlet’s rule fades in light of Claudius’ new upcoming and inadequate sovereignty. Young Hamlet perceives this situation through past events and experiences, his own dark thoughts, his status
Contrast as a Thematic and Characterization Technique Hamlet is to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most famed pieces of work, in part due to the thematic and characterization techniques used to intensify the plot. An example of a thematic and characterization technique that plays a role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is contrast. Contrast is illustrated through Hamlet’s relationship with his step father, Claudius, who incestuously married Hamlet’s mother after Hamlet’s father had only been newly deceased