Shakespeare, Hamlet and the Roles of Women

In Elizabethan England - the period of William Shakespeare - women were socially degraded and taught they were inferior to men. In his play, crossroads, Shakespeares perception is thoroughly displayed as women are secondhand and pre directed as inferiors; object glasss that assist or draw a blank the action of men. Specifically, Gertrude and Ophelia are displayed as instruments of deceit, fragile-minded women with a dependence on men, and the give birth for their own first of maltreatment and degradation.\nGertrude al just about presently falls under the stirred up spell of Claudius and allows herself to become objectified, essentially neglecting her own son. She does not travail to reason with hamlet and regulate the genuine reasons for his sorrow simply instead allows for her son to be spied on by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, ignoring the ineluctably of her own child. Gertrude becomes an object utilize to spy on Hamlet when she ultimately gives in and allows Polonius , who has hide behind a tapis, to perceive to the conversation she has with her son. When the Queen states, Ill excuse you. Fear me not. Withdraw, I regard him coming (III.IV.9-10). it shows that Gertrude is fully alert of the situation she is in and has hold to allow Polonius to listen in to her son in his most vulnerable and intimate state, considering his mindset. As a loving bring she should swallow allowed her son the chance to vent his situation and problems in an intimate and secure situation, still 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 part of the grade we can assume that Polonius would have not been behind the tapestry and inadvertently killed. This event too allowed Hamlet to be sent England, prolonging his revenge. Similar to Gertrude, Ophelia allows herself to become an object used to spy on Prince Hamlet. Hi s former lover, one who we can...