Use of Adjectives to Represent of Female Characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Corpus Assisted Feminist Stylistic Analysis

Abstract

The study uses a Corpus Assisted Feminist Stylistic Analysis to look at how women are portrayed in Hamlet by William Shakespeare. This current study carries out these analyses with the help of adjectives. The adjectives are identified from the play with the help of computer software Sketch Engine.  The study examines how women, notably Ophelia and Gertrude, are portrayed in the play by means of thorough examination of linguistics patterns and discourse structures. Through the integration of stylistic analysis and corpus linguist approaches, this work illuminates the intricacies of gender representation in Shakespearean literature, providing valuable perspectives on the social and cultural milieu of the period. The results advance our knowledge of the creation and interpretation of female characters in one of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies, Hamlet.