Shakespeare's Hamlet And Its Displayed Attitudes Toward Women
Brandon Robalin
Mrs. R. Robinson
English IV AP 1501/ DC 1302. 4
22 April 2014
Thematic Paragraph: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its Displayed Attitudes toward Women In Act I of William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare uses the narrative as an opportunity to explore the attitudes toward women that were commonly held at the time, examining the widespread misogyny of the early 17th century. The presence of only two named female characters reveals how women were largely thought of as the subordinate sex and were expected to follow the will of the men surrounding their lives. Hamlet is greatly alarmed as to why his mother, Gertrude, would remarry so quickly after the death of her husband and why she would choose to
Mrs. R. Robinson
English IV AP 1501/ DC 1302. 4
22 April 2014
Thematic Paragraph: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its Displayed Attitudes toward Women In Act I of William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare uses the narrative as an opportunity to explore the attitudes toward women that were commonly held at the time, examining the widespread misogyny of the early 17th century. The presence of only two named female characters reveals how women were largely thought of as the subordinate sex and were expected to follow the will of the men surrounding their lives. Hamlet is greatly alarmed as to why his mother, Gertrude, would remarry so quickly after the death of her husband and why she would choose to