Women’s role in society has often turned out to decide the future of man. Odds are, with the 51 percent of women in the world, that they will either have the majority vote or just be able to control their spouse’s beliefs. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, women play a major role in the life of the men in the play. To accomplish this, the women of the play get dominated by the men, they try to get power from the men and they get caught up in the men’s problems, which lead to their downfall. With the very important role that women play in today’s society, women should have the power to overtake the men knowing that barbarianism is not used today as it was

Women did have it much harder during the Victorian age. They were even denied the right to act in any plays or performances. The domination of man was very powerful because they could use their size and physical ability. In the play Hamlet, the male characters use their minds more than their bodies to dominate. As the inferior sex at the time, women may have felt the necessity to do what the men told them to do. Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius and the sister of Laertes, did what the most involved men in her life wanted. Both Laertes and Polonius warned her of Hamlet and Ophelia did listen eventually and bowed down from Hamlets love. Laertes told Ophelia: “Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, / And keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot of danger and desire.” (I, III, 33-35). In the same speech, Laertes also says: “Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: / Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.” (I, III, 43-44). Polonius tells Ophelia that she is very inexperienced in love and that Hamlet is not the best decision for a lover. “Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, / Unsifted in such perilous circumstances ;” (I, III, 101-102). Another demonstration of domination is that women let men make their decisions for them. Being the mother of Hamlet, Gertrude would most likely have the decision of what is to be done with him. Instead of Hamlet’s own mother making the decision of his fate, his stepfather Claudius makes the decision and expects Gertrude to follow along with it. Claudius decides to send Hamlet off to England as he is too big of a threat now. The king tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: “Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy

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