Another reason why Hamlet’s criticisms of women are justified is due to the profound resentment he has for his own mother, which is reflected whenever he talks to any woman. Since he had a very close relationship with his father and thought very highly of him, Hamlet feels personally betrayed by his mother when she gets married to Claudius. He feels that Gertrude should be mourning his father’s death as deeply as he himself does, and thinks her decision to marry again was brash. Since he is expected to behave politely at all times due to his station, Hamlet does not feel as though he can express the hurt he feels to anyone, and instead keeps it bottled up inside. He is only able to release this anger when he is approached by another woman,…
in all words Hamlet is talking to his mother (gertrude) hinting his depression,the whole fact of his mother marrying his fathers uncle already sickens him, and the fact that his mother show no grief or sadness about king hamlet ( Hamlets father) hurts hamlet more and that whole crazy sitoution is whats making him act so depressed and gloomy. Yet his mother and claudius completely void out their incest marriage, they put all his gloom from just his fathers death.…
Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, begins the play with Hamlet upset with her for marrying his uncle, Claudius. She does not see what is wrong with the marriage and tries to tell Hamlet to get over his father’s death. The Act I clearly show that Gertrude’s and Hamlet’s mother-son relationship will never as it once was. Gertrude still tries to help Hamlet throughout the play by trying to convince Claudius to leave Hamlet alone and that Hamlet feels guilt for what he has done. Hamlet hesitate killing Claudius because he is now Gertrude’s husband and Hamlet may unconsciously feel a connection with Claudius as his stand by father. If Gertrude never married Claudius, then Hamlet would probably have the confidence to kill Claudius when he found out that he was the one that killed his father. All through the play Gertrude protects Hamlet. She unknowingly adds fuel to the flame that is Hamlet’s detestation for the marriage. With Gertrude playing the “victim” in Claudius’, Hamlet has someone who will remain faithful to him. If Gertrude knew about the…
Although Gertrude and Ophelia are not well developed through out the play, their actions, language and influence on the play portray them as the obedient passive type of women. Gertrude is Hamlet 's mother, a queen who betrayed her husband and got seduced by the prince 's uncle Claudius. She remarried with him and thereafter obeyed every order from Claudius. Gertrude is objectified by Claudius, as he said: "my crown, mine own ambition and my Queen." To him the queen is one of his possessions and not even listed as the first. This suggested Gertrude is used by Claudius to get to the throne. The hasty marriage only a few weeks after her husband 's death shows her great dependence on men. Hamlet 's proclamation that he will "speak daggers to her, but use none" illustrate that he perceives her to be inferior, weak enough to fall foul to his words. Overall, Gertrude is the type of women that cannot survive without a man in her life, with such a weak soul she betrays her own husband and son.…
Gertrude influenced Hamlet significantly throughout the course of the play. Hamlet was very angered by his mother's remarriage. Not so long after his father's death, Gertrude married Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. He was driven mad when his father's ghost appeared to him and revealed that Claudius was responsible for the death of Old Hamlet. Hamlet even phrased the marriage as incest. Hamlets rage is displayed when he throws his mother on the bed and says, "Frailty, thy name is woman" (Act1, Scene2, Line146). This show his extent of anger because he makes a generalization that all women are weak. As a…
This brings him to his mother, Gertrude, who has just finished talking to Polonius in her room when her son comes barging in. While Hamlet is still frustrated and brimming with vengeful anger and Claudius is stricken with guilt, Gertrude is in fact quite calm and seems completely un-phased. I think Hamlet is upset that his mother seems to take the death of his father…
Hamlet scorns Gertrude after she chooses to remarry his uncle, Claudius, quickly and by doing so she sealed her fate as an ever dependent woman in Hamlet’s eyes. Hamlet states, “Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on. And yet, within a month (Let me not think on ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman!), A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father’s body, Within a month, Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (I.II. 146-160). Hamlet acknowledges that his mother was heavily sexually dependent and she will have any other to fulfill that position in her life as her longing grows for sex. Hamlet loses all respect for his mother because she married her brother-in-law, which in his mind is “incestuous” and immoral. Hamlet’s distaste in the timing of the marriage and…
Hamlets mother Gertrude betrays her first husband, the first king of Denmark. This betrayal comes in the form of a hasty marriage to the king’s brother Claudius, who we find out later murdered his brother in an attempt to acquire the crown. This is an act of betrayal on Gertrude’s part, because she should be in mourning of the her first husband’s death, but she immediately enters another marriage, with the kings brother. This is a betrayal to Hamlet because his father was killed, and his mother soon marries the man who we find out is responsible for it. We find out that Claudius killed his brother and Hamlets father with poison, we find this out when Hamlet is visited by a ghost in which Horatio cannot identify but shows itself to Hamlet as his father, it is at this time that the ghost tells Hamlet how he really died and who was responsible . When Hamlet learns of this news, he is enraged with the news and he begins looking to get revenge on the murderer Claudius. Hamlet throughout the play begins to doubt his sanity and if he should kill his uncle Claudius or himself “To be or not to be…….” (Hamlet), this is an act of betrayal on Hamlets part.…
When Gertrude married her husband’s brother Claudius only two months after his death, Hamlet’s was annoyed at his mother. He was obviously hurt and angered that she remarried so quickly, but when he spoke to the ghost of King Hamlet, his view of his mother changed. He went from thinking she was a good, dedicated wife to "that incestuous, that adulterate beast". Hamlet…
Throughout the play Hamlet is deeply hurt by his mother’s decision to remarry his uncle. As Hamlet so boldly states “Frailty thy name is woman” the reader realizes her actions cause Hamlet to curse women all together (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 146). In the first Act, Claudius and Gertrude question Hamlet’s depression. They push Hamlet to accept his…
What distinguishes Hamlet from other revenge tragedy plays is the amount of action expected, especially from Hamlet himself as he continuously hesitates due to him trying to be absolute certain of his actions. Hamlet handles an extremely complicated dilemma which is a combination of feelings that does not allow him to be tranquil. One of the reasons is due to the mourning of his father’s death, which he already feels distraught about. The other reason for Hamlet’s problem is his mother’s sudden remarriage of her brother-in-law, Claudius, whom here in this play he is presented as the villain. As Hamlet says, “A little month, or ere those shoes were old… a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer.” Hamlet here is showing his disgust towards Gertrude, his mother, as she is remarrying only two months after her husband’s death. Furthermore Claudius is blood related to Hamlet hence deepening his anger, turning to madness. Hamlets hatred towards Gertrude is seen in Act 1 scene 2 as Hamlet expressed in a negative tone; “seems, madam! Nay it is; I know not seems./ This not alone my inky cloak, good mother,” Also Hamlet’s first soliloquy in the play shows his distress towards Claudius and Gertrude’s marriage.…
Gertrude is continuously selfish throughout the play but, her selfishness began with her marriage to Claudius "but two months dead"(I,ii,138), of her former husband King Hamlet. Because of Hamlet's reaction to his mother's quick marriage, it is obvious that Gertrude had not thought of his feelings but only of her own. He mentions often that Gertrude "married with my uncle,/ My father's brother," (I,ii,151-153) "Within a month,/ Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears/ Had left the flushing in her galled eye,/ She married," (I,ii,154-157). Her action hurt Hamlet deeply and more than any other character in the play. Each instance that Hamlet and Gertrude speak, Hamlet arouses the situation of Gertrude's hasty marriage. It emphasizes her selfishness to both her and Hamlet's lives. When speaking to Hamlet, curious to know if he has gone mad, Hamlet yells "Mother, you have my father much offended," (III,iv,11). Again, he brings up her marriage which shows his agony to the situation. Gertrude's selfish actions not only affect her life, but the lives of others as well.…
Hamlet is one of the most complex characters and stories in western literature. Shakespeare has loaded this play to the brim with philosophy and ideas far beyond his years. Hamlet himself can be dissected and interpreted in thousands of different ways; but most notably he is dramatic. Dramatic in every sense of the word, he enjoys acting and plays and he is extremely animated in all of his interactions. The same drama that impassions him, tortures him; so much so that he often contemplates suicide. Possibly the most significant drama in the play and in Hamlet surrounds the sanctity of the, and specifically, Hamlet’s mind. Hamlet doesn’t allow anyone to intrude his mind for many reason none more important then the other. The reasons that seem the most profound all surround the validity of his own sexuality and the judgments of the gender relationships he is apart of. Hamlet seemingly blames his mother for parts of his fathers death. He knows she didn’t actually kill him but he blames her for her lack of grief and also her marriage to the swine that is Claudius. He even goes as far as to say to her “aye madam, it is common” right after Gertrude told him about how all life ends he basically calls her a hooker. (I, ii, 13) It is peculiar that he has such a reaction to a mother trying to comfort her grieving son. Throughout the play Hamlet comes up against many trials but none greater then the challenge of accepting who he is versus what he is trying to be. All of Hamlet’s greatness and all of his flaws come from the same source his extreme aversion to the gender relationships posed in his world. In order for us to truly understand hamlet we have to penetrate what he so actively tries to protect; which in Hamlet’s case is his mind and his understanding of love, and his own sexuality.…
Although Hamlet shows all distress about his mother’s marriage is Claudius, his relationship with his mother is still positive. Clearly Hamlet wants to kill Claudius for killing his father then marrying his mother, he has no urge to murder his mother. In an odd respect for her, he says, “go not to mine uncles bed”. (III.iv.160) When Gertrude is dying at the end of the play, she yells out to Hamlet, “Oh my dear Hamlet! / The drink, the drink! I am poisoned!” (V.ii.315) Hamlet frequently does complain about his mother and how she didn’t mourn for his dead father long enough and how she was all tears at the funeral but moved on quickly…
“Hamlet”, which was written by William Shakespeare, is the story of a prince seeking revenge for his father’s death. Gertrude is the mother of Hamlet and the Queen of Denmark. King Hamlet dies in the beginning of the play and Gertrude quickly marries King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius. Queen Gertrude seems to be insecure and dependent of men, and her role raises more questions than it answers. Some questions it may raise might be: Was she involved with Claudius before the death of her husband? Did she love her husband? Did she know about Claudius’s plan to commit the murder? We don’t know the exact answers to these questions, but some things we do know are her appearance, personality, and her relationships with other characters.…