A Study of Female Characters in Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth

This work is focused on the examination and analysis of some female characters in William Shakespeare’s major tragedies: Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet. The paper has been divided in two parts: the first one is the historical part, which is used to indicate the position of women in society and analyse their way of life from childhood to adulthood, while the second part deals with the analysis and interpretation of female characters from the tragedies mentioned above. In order to do this, I divided Shakespearean female characters into three different categories: victims, temptresses and accomplices. However, in the course of my study, these characters will find their place in more than one category to show their three-dimensionality.