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Hamlet is one Shakespeare's most famous plays. This essay will look at Hamlet's perception of women in general but particularly Gertrude and Ophelia. It will also look at the historical presentation of women, comparing Hamlet's time to today and seeing if the symbolic role that the female characters have is related to the period. I will also look at Hamlet's madness, whether it was it was real or not and also whether women could be the cause of it. Finally it will glance at a possible ‘Oedipus rex complex' in Hamlet.
Because Hamlet is based around the character Hamlet Prince of Denmark, women in the play are often presented the way that Hamlet sees them. Also Hamlet lives in a very enclosed world with only a small circle of friends and family. Only two women, Gertrude and Ophelia, enter into his world, so he used their characters as a complete character assessment of all women. Hamlet directs the insult "frailty thy name is woman" (Act I sc. ii) at Gertrude, and in some ways this......

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