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Hamlet - Although They Have Few Words, Is It The Women Who Drive The Action Of The Play?
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19/12/04 Hamlet - Although They Have Few Words, Is It The Women Who Drive The Action Of The Play? The female characters of the play - Gertrude and Ophelia - are each given unique personalities which influence the conclusion of the story. I think that both women play important roles and while each character is different in individual ways, they share similar qualities. Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius (a chief advisor to King Claudius). Shakespeare does very little to develop her character: she has very little stage time and few lines. I think that this is partly because women were not allowed to act on stage in Shakespeare's time. Female roles had to be played by men, therefore, there were always limitations and restrictions for female characters. In the case of Ophelia, a young and lovely woman, Shakespeare would have been writing for a boy. This might have prevented the playwright...
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