Influence of Female Characters
Influence of Female characters
Women are the strongest and most capable species on the planet. The society assumes that the ‘men’ are the strongest. Usually women are underestimated and not given a chance to display their true colours. Countries that give women equal rights are much better and developed society compared to countries that don’t give women equal rights. Women make up 50% of our society and if 50% of our society is unhappy then we as people are failures and we need to fix it. Women are what actually run this society and are the only source of sustainability in this society. In the Shakespeare play, Gertrude the queen of Denmark is the second strongest person right after the king. This means that the affect she has or can put on the society is tremendous and this can completely ruin the equilibrium of the society. It is the queen that will produce an offspring helping the royal family to rule for longer. She already has a son from her first marriage named hamlet after his father. Queen Gertrude married her brother-in law 2 months after hamlet the king’s death. So now Queen Gertrude is in middle of a conflict between her husband and her son. She is always seen trying to calm them down and that’s why for a very long time there was no bloodshed up until the moment she died. When Hamlet returns home from Denmark, he is shocked at what he sees. He sees his mother and his uncle in bed. “Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears, had left the flushing in her galled eyes,” (Shakespeare, 1.2). This scene emotionally scars him and makes him feel disgusted at this sight. This incident makes hamlet think about committing suicide and it also affects his relationship with Ophelia who ends up committing suicide. Gertrude can be seen as a very selfish person in this play. Whenever Gertrude and her son hamlet talk in general, hamlet brings up the topic about her hast decision to marry Claudius. The incident has deeply affected hamlet. One instance Gertrude says,
Women are the strongest and most capable species on the planet. The society assumes that the ‘men’ are the strongest. Usually women are underestimated and not given a chance to display their true colours. Countries that give women equal rights are much better and developed society compared to countries that don’t give women equal rights. Women make up 50% of our society and if 50% of our society is unhappy then we as people are failures and we need to fix it. Women are what actually run this society and are the only source of sustainability in this society. In the Shakespeare play, Gertrude the queen of Denmark is the second strongest person right after the king. This means that the affect she has or can put on the society is tremendous and this can completely ruin the equilibrium of the society. It is the queen that will produce an offspring helping the royal family to rule for longer. She already has a son from her first marriage named hamlet after his father. Queen Gertrude married her brother-in law 2 months after hamlet the king’s death. So now Queen Gertrude is in middle of a conflict between her husband and her son. She is always seen trying to calm them down and that’s why for a very long time there was no bloodshed up until the moment she died. When Hamlet returns home from Denmark, he is shocked at what he sees. He sees his mother and his uncle in bed. “Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears, had left the flushing in her galled eyes,” (Shakespeare, 1.2). This scene emotionally scars him and makes him feel disgusted at this sight. This incident makes hamlet think about committing suicide and it also affects his relationship with Ophelia who ends up committing suicide. Gertrude can be seen as a very selfish person in this play. Whenever Gertrude and her son hamlet talk in general, hamlet brings up the topic about her hast decision to marry Claudius. The incident has deeply affected hamlet. One instance Gertrude says,