why are women objectified in Shakespeare play???

Answer 1

Shakespeare's plays often didn't have women playing the roles of women. Consider the time period. Women couldn't vote until the 20th century and Shakespeare was writing several centuries before. I think Shakespeare actually has a lot of strong women characters for his time. Have you ever read As You Like It? There is a cross dressing female character in it.
Also remember that Shakespeare was writing for an uneducated working class audience who wanted the play to have some leud elements to it. In a fairly repressed Victorian England, many people lived vicariously through descriptions of women in plays and they wanted to imagine an 'obtainable' woman as opposed to the prudes of the time.
I really don't think you can fault Shakespeare for objectification of women--at least not more than any of his contemporaries and perhaps less than some writers of otehr time periods.

Answer 2

At the time that Shakespeare wrote women were not allowed to take the stage.

This changed only after the restoration of the crown to Charles II after the Puritans.

This meant that Shakespeare had to use boys to play the female parts. This led to much smaller parts for female characters in most plays.

Therefore the women were the object because they were not able to be on stage for the major drama.

for more info look into feminist literary theory.

Answer 3

One possible reason is to sustain the status quo in inter-gender relationships. If a woman like Lady Macbeth (strong, intelligent, ruthless, and rather more competent than her husband) is shown to prosper, it might get women thinking that they can do the same. If she is shown as unnatural, and ends up meeting a dreadful fate, it warns women not to misbehave and get ideas above their station. In addition, the reigning monarch at the time of writing the play might influence the playwright. If there is a queen on the throne, then women may be portrayed more favourably. If a king is on the throne then the women will be kept in their place, particularly if said king has (a) wife problems or (b) did not like the queen who reigned before him.

Answer 4

They are not all objectified, but are definitely not as well written as the male characters. This is in part societal and in part due to the fact that the roles were taken on by young men/boys who largely didn't really understand women that will. I think most of the patrons would have been male as well, so he definitely wrote for them.

Answer 5

Maybe it has something to do with NO women players in the days that Shakespear wrote

Answer 6

Take a look at the Merchant of Venice. Who saved the day? Was it not Portia? A woman who, because of the current ideas about women had to dress up as a man.

Answer 7

I think it very much depends on which woman you are thinking about...

Lady Macbeth does come across as a harpy, but Juliet is a strong, intelligent young woman.

Lots of characters, lots of stories and a lot of interpretation.

If you narrow down which character(s) you mean, then we might have more to discuss.

Answer 8

IT may reflect the views of society in general. They were written before the suffrage movement, so views have changed considerably and I don't think it's something we can hold against poor Shakespeare!

Answer 9

objectified?
Which play?
Your question is way too broad, and i don't know what objectified means.

Answer 10

no in some the men are kind of manipulated , like in othello he was easily made into thinking she was cheating on him.