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In the play Hamlet Gertrude and Ophelia are portrayed as weak characters. The men in their lives have complete control over them. These women obviously do not have a mind of their own. If they listened to themselves, they would have more control of their lives.
Ophelia is one of those women who is a lost cause to society. She makes women look helpless and that we can be easily manipulated. Hamlet basically used Ophelia …
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…over the nasty sty,-
Queen: O, speak to me nomore;
These words like daggers enter in mine ears;
No, more sweet Hamlet(1113-14).
In this play the female heroine has a way of making women look weak and helpless. To women of today this play would be extremely insulting to the female mind. In Hamlet women have been viewed as frail subordinate creature. As the reader this play sends a contemptuous message to women.
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