Women are the enemy in Hamlet.

Harold Bloom, a critic for Hamlet, by William Shakespeare states numerous opinions about the play. In “Shakespeare: Invention of the Human”, by Bloom, he says, “The charismatic is compelled to a physician’s authority despite himself (Hamlet); Claudius is merely an accident; Hamlet’s only persuasive enemy is Hamlet himself.” Although Hamlet’s own mind seems to be a problem, it is the women of the play, Gertrude and Ophelia, who are the true enemies of Hamlet.

In Shakespeare’s play, the driving forces seem to be greed and revenge. Yet, if someone searches more, he or she will find motives other than these in the play. If the reader asks himself what is the main reason for revenge in the play they will find that there is a woman at the center of it. In the beginning of the play the audience learns that the king has died and later discovers that it was his brother Claudius who killed him. Besides Claudius’s desire for the crown, what else might have motivate...