In the introduction of the story Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The king of Denmark, Claudius was portrayed as a caring man to its modern day audience, when he was trying to figure out why his nephew Hamlet was so depress. But due to some circumstantial events that took place in this story. It resulted in the modern day audience to shift its views on Claudius as a good and caring king to an evil and dastardly one, when in Act four Scene five, Shakespeare suggest that Claudius the king of Denmark
the years there has been great debate as to whether Shakespeare’s representations of women were misogynistic and degrading, or in fact just appropriate accounts of the patriarchal society in which he lived. The portrayal of women in Shakespeare’s Hamlet support this theory of gender inequality, particularly through the construction of the character Ophelia. By constructing
The Sexist Sequences of Shakespeare’s Hamlet The oppression of a group first begins with culture; for culture molds the minds of the populace. Hamlet, a story about the vengeance of Prince Hamlet by William Shakespeare was written during the precarious Elizabethan era. As the play progresses, signs of misogyny surface. The sexism can be connected to the “cult of domesticity” which preached piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity to achieve the “True Woman” (Lavender 1). Shakespeare’s