William Shakespeare, also known as the English nationalist poet, is widely considered the greatest playwright of all time. Shakespeare spent most of his life writing poems that captured the “full range of human emotions and conflicts” (“Biography of William Shakespeare”). All over the world, people have performed the plays, poems, and sonnets of William Shakespeare for over four hundred years. Even today, Shakespeare's works have become very famous. One of William Shakespeare's most famous works is Hamlet. In Hamlet, women, Ophelia, and Gertrude were portrayed as property, non-controlling, inferior, and solely dependent on men throughout the play. Ophelia is an obedient daughter who depends on her father, Polonius, for guidance. Ophelia and Hamlet were deeply in love, until his mother, Gertrude, married his uncle, Claudius, on the day of his father's funeral. After seeing this, Hamlet believes that all women, including his beloved Ophelia, are weak and only want sex from men. Hamlet becomes even more angry when he discovers that Ophelia is becoming her father's puppet because she begins to follow Polonius' orders without having a say in any of his situations. For example, her father didn't want her to marry Hamlet because he wanted all the power. If Ophelia had married Hamlet, she would have gained more power than her father. This is exactly what she didn't want, which is why Polonius told her that she could no longer see him. Without any hesitation, Ophelia accepted his deal. When Ophelia returns to her father, asking for advice about Hamlet, he responds to his liking by saying, “You do not understand yourself so clearly / As becomes my daughter and your honor” (1.3.105-6). According to Woolf, "... middle of paper... The only thing she can think of is suicide. Gertrude describes her death by saying, "When her grassy trophies and herself fell into the weeping brook. . His clothes became loose; until his robes, heavy with their drinking, tore the poor wretch from his melodious disposition to muddy death” (4.7.2). Gertrude explains that Ophelia's death was an accident and she let it happen to save herself from sinking Ophelia's "garments" "bring her down," as if they had a mind of their own. This seems to be a metaphor for the way Ophelia lives her life: doing what her father, her brother, and her boyfriend tell her to do. rather than making decisions for herself.