Hamlets women as victims.

Title: Hamlets women as victims.
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Hamlets women as victims.

Hamlet's Women: The Victims         The women closest to Hamlet, Gertrude, his mother and Ophelia, his lover, are victims. The tragedy of Hamlet portrays many deaths and sorrows, but it is the women who suffer most, as they are treated like instruments to be used by the male characters to achieve their most pressing desires. As one reads the tragedy of Hamlet, it is obvious that the female characters play inferior yet important roles in it. …showed first 75 words of 3672 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3672 total…in the tragedy of Hamlet. The two women surrounding Hamlet are innocent victims of other people's wrongdoings. Bibliography: Boyce, Charles, Shakespeare A to Z.         New York: Dell Publishing, 1991. Pooley, Robert, England in literature: America reads.          :Scott, Foresman and Company, _____. Jones, Ernest, Hamlet and Oedipus.         London and New York: W.W. Northern& Company, Inc. 1976. Electronic references: www.free-essays.us www.beaconschool.org www.english-literature.org http://antiessays.bigwonk.com www.cheathouse.com www.luminarium.org

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