Women in Hamlet

In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, there is a lot of verbal abuse and hatred towards women. There isn't any physical violence towards women, but we can see a lot of Misogyny. We can see the hatred towards women by the example of Hamlet's hatred towards his mother (Queen Gertrude) and his hatred towards Ophelia (his lover) for a section in the play. Hamlet's hatred towards his mother, Queen Gertrude influenced him stab her ears with daggers; meaning he was insulting her and steping on her with his words. This was an act of abuse, this shows it is okay for sons to abuse their own mothers and this also shows Queen Gertrude being attacked without any sort of retaliations. Hamlet's verbal abuse on Ophelia was also painful, his comments that she should to go to a nunnery rather than experience the corruptions of sexuality and ruin the lives of men. This play demonstrates that males has way more dominance than the female characters,. If we look at King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, Queen Gertrude always obeys his orders (except for the last order of not drinking the poison), however, King Claudius doesn't obey Queen Gertrudes orders.





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