Women, in the dictionary defines them as adult female human beings having characteristics such as courtesy, kindness, gentle, sweet, understandable and so on. Women are considered the opposite sex of men and in the old times as slaves of men but unfortunately the world seem to realize how important women can really always competing with men at high levels and gained independence and rights to many things nowadays. This essay topic, "Frailty thy name is woman" 1, asks us to look at Hamlet's view of the women of Denmark and decide how far we can agree with his view in women and where he thinks all women should go or belong to. This quote is spoken be Hamlet after the ceremony of king and queen's marriage where he talks about how right after his father died, she quickly marries his uncle, this thought provokes him to say "Frailty thy name is woman" which is the sprout at first in Hamlet's mind concerning women but yet later it grows into what we see as Hamlet's view of Gertrude and Ophelia as prostitutes. To make this essay more interesting, we will say that we agree with Hamlet's view of Gertrude and Ophelia to the point where we think all women

We will start with Gertrude, she is a character of weakness, intelligence, and a lack of depth within herself. "The queen was not a bad-hearted woman, not at all the woman to think little of murder. But she had a soft animal nature and was very dull and very shallow. She loved to be happy... the belief at the bottom of her heart was that the world is a place constructed simply that people may be happy in it in a good-humoured sensual fashion."2 Looking at this we can see that Gertrude is a girl trapped in a woman's body. Old Hamlet playing as the ghost talks to hamlet and says, "From me, whose love was of that dignity that it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor to those of mine."3. As we see in this quote Old Hamlet thinks that Gertrude was never in love with him and

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Approximate Word count = 1152
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)