The female characters in ‘Hamlet’ are objectified and contained by the male characters.?

Answer 1

Naughty girl. You have to write this essay yourself, with your own views, not by dribs and drabs collected from a website. Some universities take a dim view of plagiarism and if you are on a course there you can be expelled. If you are still at school you had better get in shape by doing the thinking for yourself.
However with regard to your question.Yes, they are.

Answer 2

It is hard to approach the play without any baggage of todays societal views, but generally, yes they are.
the fact that only two women are present in the play is symbollic of the male dominated world of 'Hamlet'.
Ophelia is given no past and she is defined only by the men - hamlet, laertes, polonius.
Gertrude is critisized more than is deserving of her offence.
I hate to say it, but we can imagine Hamlet without the women, but we cant imagine the women without the men. there would be no play.

Answer 3

I've said it before and I'll say it again... Ophelia was the key to Hamlet's undoing.

Answer 4

What is the question...you have to put the play in the time that it was written. You cannot put today's attitudes, morals or social conscience on what was written over a hundred years ago as a play.

Answer 5

Certainly not. Both Ophelia and Gertrude are fully developed, believable characters in their own right.

Answer 6

in that era woman were mostly and still are in some societys considered ,,,property ,,,even in america till the turn of the century a woman was considered( in some places & states ) livestock on legal issues financial property,,, men gave them there position in the home I think this is what you refer to the treatment of the woman

Answer 7

as it was in that day