Comparing Hamlet And Heart Of Darkness

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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness are based on women living in worlds where the men have more power and responsibility than women who have equal authority. Living in a world that is ruled by a man make a woman feel like they are unwanted and less important than a man. In Hamlet, Ophelia and Gertrude are portrayed as having no intelligence and not understanding what Claudius and Hamlet are planning on doing to get rid of one another. On the other hand, in Heart of Darkness, the women in this novel are treated like they are too sensitive to understand the real truth and also stupid for not figuring out that they being betrayed. These are the things that the men in these stories want to and only chose to see. Women are not being treated like they are important in either of these stories they are being taken for granted and not being treated for who they really are.

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