Women in Hamlet In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, there are two main female characters (Ophelia, who eventually goes mad, and Gertrude, who ends up dying). Is it simply a coincidence that these women, the only women in the play, end up being fooled and continually manipulated, controlled and exploited by the male characters in the play? Is it really a coincidence that when Ophilia's love - Hamlet - is taken away from her, she leaves, and when Gertrude suddenly finds herself without a husband, she marries his brother? These things are not a coincidence. They were done deliberately, now the question is why? Why did Shakespeare choose to represent the women in his play Hamlet this way, and why did he have the other characters in the play describe them as fragile humans, weka and even letters? the truth is that every writer, when they write, will capture a little bit – no matter how small – of themselves in their work. their work will be a reflection of their perspectives, their opinions and them. This is not surprising, because if you don't write down your own ideas, what is the importance of writing? Shakespeare - for some reason - views women as how they are portrayed in his plays. he sees them as weak, fragile, incapable of functioning on their own without the help of a man, and less deserving of the prosperity that it means to be human. This is evidently seen when Hamloet shows his own disdain for women by saying, “fragility, your name is woman (p. 29)!” in these five words, Hamlet sums it all up. It brings together all the feelings about women that have been indirectly expressed and shown throughout the book. he says that for every woman, the very essence of a woman is the one who is fragile, the one who is weak. Now, Shakespeare must have at least some feelings towards women who agree with this statement, if he wants to put something so strong in stating this point in his play. Later in the play, Shakespeare makes his views on women clear again when he has Hamlet tell Op[helia, “Go to a convent. Why would you be a breeder of sinners (p. 130)? Here, Hamlet tells Ophelia that he never loved her and that she should go to a convent, rather than marry and pass on her genes to children who would eventually become "sinners." Here Hamlet says that when children are born and they are sinful, it is the mother's fault. He also makes this clear when he says a line later: “I myself am honest and indifferent, but yet I could accuse myself of such things that it was better that my mother had not borne me (p. 130). » in these two quotes, it is obvious that Shakespeare thinks that since it is the woman who bears the child, if the child is a sinner or a bad person, it is because of the mother, and that is in fact the mother who sinned. in these quotes, Shakespeare is only putting his own words and thoughts into Hamlet's mouth, as these visions of women keep recurring throughout the play. Not only in Hamlet does Shakespeare's view on women shine through, but also in many of his other plays. Take The Taming of the Shrew for example. First, just the name. the play is about a man (Petruchio) who wants to marry this woman (Katherina), not because he loves her, but because he wants a wife, and he also wants her money (she is rich). The only thing is that this woman is a strong-willed woman, who says what she thinks. The plot of the play is that Petruchio must "tame" Hatherina, because there is "obviously something wrong with her" if she.