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HAMLET

HAMLET. ANALYSIS OF FEMALE CHARACTERS: GERTRUDE AND OPHELIA. Both, Ophelia and Gertrude are the only women in the tragedy and they are very important in Hamlet’s life. . OPHELIA. She is Polonius’ daughter and Laerte’s sister;

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HAMLET

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  1. HAMLET ANALYSIS OF FEMALE CHARACTERS: GERTRUDE AND OPHELIA

  2. Both, Ophelia and Gertrude are the only women in the tragedy and they are very important in Hamlet’s life.

  3. OPHELIA • She is Polonius’ daughter and Laerte’s sister; • She belongs to the middle class; • She loves Hamlet but she is not allowed to marry him because they belong to different social classes;

  4. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Ophelia represents the role of the victim because she is disappointed to the love for Hamlet, that she believes not true. • She appears for the first time in the first act in the third scene when she is speaking to her brother who has to live Denmark. They are speaking about Hamlet and Laerte is warning her to keep attention to the Prince.

  5. She becomes mad because of his father’s murder and she drowns in a river.

  6. GERTRUDE • SheisHamlet’s mother, and so oneof the mostimportant women in his life, and the King’swife; • Shebelongsto the aristocracy; • Sheappearsfor the fisttime in the fistact, in the second scene: there, with the help ofClaudius, istryingtoexplaintoHamletthatall people in the world shoulddie;

  7. After the king’s murder, she has married Claudius, the King’s brother without feeling guilty to her son, so Hamlet begins to be jealous towards Claudius; • She scarcely mourned her husband's death before marrying Claudius; • At the end of the play, she dies after drinking from Hamlet’s poisoned cup.

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