Femininity In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

At the beginning of the play, the hamlet was presented as a troubled man in a deep depression. He was mourning the death of his father. He was very much astounded to comprehend how easily people have resumed their lives specifically his mother. In the first act of hamlet his mother and his uncle's question Hamlet's attitude about why he has not moved on from his father’s forfeiture and on the other hand hamlet was amazed to see the queen reaction; that she has recently lost her husband rather than grieving she got married to Claudius. Further, he was angry on how his mother can push him to move on and accept Claudius as the new king as she stated “Cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark" (1.2.70-71). Hamlet feels that she completely portrayed betrayal and disloyalty towards his family; he believes that his father was a good husband, he states so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visits her face too roughly.” (I.2.142-144).

Gertrude abrupt marriage has utterly changed Hamlets point of interpretation about women and he started to curse all the women in his life to illustrate, hamlet once showered his deep love by giving letters and gifts to Ophelia, but later after seeing her mother attitude toward his father’s death he started to feel he might get betrayed by Ophelia as his mother