Onibaba and Hamlet

Hamlet is, in a sense, related to Onibaba. When the women's patriarchial figure left they were left to fend for themselves. They adapted an "us against the world" mentality that was very anarchistic kind of. When Hamlet's father first appeared to him, he didn't know who to trust with the knowledge of the dream because people might assume he was crazy. He seemed very paranoid, just like these women. As both plots thicken you notice that the paranoia consumes them and makes them revert to very animalistic behavior. Hamlet doesn't trust anyone and winds up killing half the cast and the women in Onibaba are an extreme version of that because they kill everyone that comes in their vicinity.