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Sweet Innocent Ophelia's Treatment Of Women In Hamlet

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Set in early Denmark, Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, specifically victimizes the two major female characters by succumbing to the repercussions of Hamlet’s vicious cycle of vengeance through unfortunate death. Shakespeare’s misogynistic portrayal of Queen Gertrude as lustful and weak for affection causes an unwanted drift between her relationship with her son. Although the queen’s intentions are illustrated as naïve and pure, Gertrude’s motives throughout the play are driven by her infatuation with Claudius and motherly love for Hamlet. On the other hand, sweet innocent Ophelia serves as the epitome of how young women behaves in the 11th century; Ophelia only acts upon the demands of her father and brother, equivalent to a hostage confined to
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