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Thesis: the identities of the women in Shakespeare's plays seems…

- - - - Gertrude married too soon after the death of Hamlet Sr., and fails to recognize he may be the pawn of a false imagining. Aside from marrying so quickly, what evidence is there that Gertrude knew Claudius had poisoned his elder brother? Could Hamlet the younger be so sick with grief over his father's death, and so devastated his mother has moved quickly that he never considers the vision of his father could be a trick of some outer-worldly enemy. Hamlet's father would have been asleep during the attack. How does this ghost know poison was poured into his ear?
- - - - Admonishes O to get thee to a nunnery.
        
        Telling her to never marry or have children yet she is in a relationship with him.
      - Puts his head in O's lap during the play, and she was in no real position to protest because of his status as a prince.
      - Never shows any real remorse for killing her father.
- - - - enlist the help of his wife to purloin the first gift Othello had ever given Desdemona, which happens to be his mother's handkerchief.
        
        Emilia is so lacking in her own sense of self she blindly allows Iago to lie about Desdemona's loyalty to Othello. Women are taught questioning one's husband is usurping his authority as head.
- - - - Views woman as the weaker sex, as opposed to the fairer sex.
- - - - Blames 'black magic' for Desdemona being bewitched by the Moor.
        
        If Brabanzio can not control her, he does not want her.