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All of the text we have read this semester reflect male dominated cultures, yet in all of them, women play very important roles. In the text the we've read, Hamlet, Gilgamesh, and The Odyssey, women played a small role, yet there are the driving factors for the actions of many other characters. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, both Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and Ophelia, Hamlet's love, affected many of the decisions and actions done by Hamlet.

Gertrude influenced Hamlet significantly throughout the course of the play. Hamlet was very angered by his mother's remarriage. Not so long after his father's death, Gertrude married Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. He was driven mad when his father's ghost appeared to him and revealed that Claudius was responsible for the death of Old Hamlet. Hamlet even phrased the marriage as incest. Hamlet‘s rage is displayed when he throws his mother on the bed and says, "Frailty, thy name is woman" (Act1, Scene2, Line146). This show his extent of anger because he......

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