In William Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet, Shakespeare portrays women negatively by showing his readers how women are treated like property and depend on men to do things that they themselves cannot do. During Shakespeare’s time period, women mostly relied on and are obedient to men no matter how high their social statutes is. The two biggest female role in Hamlet are Gertrude and Ophelia. Gertrude is the queen of Denmark and Ophelia, a daughter of a king’s council. Even though these two women are of different status, they are both treated the same by men. They are both seen as helpless, dependent, and
