How does betrayal or treachery help in developing the main character? What it reveals about the characters? Use a theme. How betrayal was a theme and how if affected the main character? William Shakespeare, one of the most influential writers in history, was renowned for masterfully elaborating themes of real life into his pieces of literature. In fact, his plays were able to transcend time, influencing the course of western literature because of their universal …showed first 75 words of 916 total…

…showed last 75 words of 916 total…characteristics, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Gildernstern helped illustrate Hamlet's personality throughout the play. "Frailty thy name is woman" may have been Shakepeare's attitude about the female characters of the play; however, this weak and naive characteristic that he placed on the female roles was a necessity to the play. Hamlet's immature, unpredictable and insane behaviour could not have been defined if the female roles had not existed in the plot to shape his true personality.