William Shakespeare, the author of many famous writings, proved that he had a way of getting his point across without making any argument at all. In two of his most famous works, Macbeth and Hamlet, Shakespeare takes a closer look at the role of women when dealing with authority in their royal courts. He dramatizes real events from his life at the time and brings them to light using his writings. In many plays, he greatly emphasizes the feminist perspective in recounting the woman's great anxiety which ultimately leads to an unstable courtship. This chaos causes women to desperately cling to the people around them for acceptance until social and political power is regained. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Queen Gertrude's experiences with Claudius and Hamlet illustrate a contrast between her desire for acceptance and her desire for a role of authority in the Danish royal court. Throughout this play, Shakespeare addresses many aspects of the character of Queen Gertrude. In several parts of the play, Shakespeare refers to Gertrude as an "adulterous beast", which would mean that Gertrude and Claudius should have been involved with each other even before King Claudius died and that Gertrude was at the current plan all the time. . If they were both involved in the murder of the previous king, Claudius would have treated Gertrude as an accomplice, which is not the case. Gertrude allows herself to be insulted and accused of adultery so that Claudius will accept her more. If she were to struggle with the names and the many accusations against her, Claudius might become annoyed with her constant fight for her deceased husband. He would feel like she wasn't as interested in him as she... middle of paper ...... the division that Queen Gertrude experiences throughout Hamlet reveals that there is a bigger picture than what Shakespeare created in the confusions of this play. When people view Hamlet as a whole through the feminist lens, it becomes clear that the women are extremely submissive and lack awareness of their situation. Gertrude longs to be accepted and regain a role in her royal court, but is easily dismissed by Claudius because he considers her useless and believes that political and royal affairs should be handled by someone more stable than her. In the case of Hamlet as well as sometimes Claudius, Gertrude appears very submissive and corresponds very precisely to the definition of a fragile woman. She does not defend herself and abandons her authority because, like a child, she is only interested in external pleasures and the positive approval of others..