Hamlet and Shakespeare interpret women in two different ways. Some say that hamlet is a misogynist while some say he may not be. In the play “Hamlet” He feels that he is betrayed by his mother gertrude which leds him to treat women the way that he does. Shakespeare portrays it all in a completely different way. Shakespeare's view of it is that they are normal, weak and not trying to turn against him in any way.
Hamlets portrayal of women in this play start with his mother gertrude. In the opening of the play hamlet's father is killed and his mother gertrude almost instantly marries another man. The man that she married turned out to be his uncle and hamlet felt that he was betrayed. Hamlet is then starts to become a misogynist from that, He starts to treat his mother bad and say that she shouldn't have remarried so fast. Hamlet treats her as if she is weak and he can just control her and make her do what he wants. …show more content…
Hamlet gets into an argument during the play when people are spying on them and says---”. He tells Ophelia that she --because it was so easy for him to take her virginity. Hamlet also feels that Ophelia is weak too which is why he controls her and makes her do what he says. From what we see throughout the play hamlet does not think very good of any women. Towards the end of the play Ophelia drowns and some say it could have been hamlet. People think that because of the way the women were treated by hamlet and the things that he had said to