ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Life and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald By Jillian Thompson May 16‚ 2012. English newspaper‚ The Guardian‚ once asked Jonathan Franzen‚ the Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Corrections‚ to contribute what he believed were the greatest rules to abide by for aspiring fiction writers. His response was “Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money” (Franzen). The novels of Francis
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Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. In this essay I will look at Hamlets perception of women in general but particularly Gertrude and Ophelia. I will also look at the historical presentation of women‚ comparing Hamlets time to today and seeing if the symbolic role that the females characters have is related to the period. Also I will look at Hamlets madness‚ whether it was real or not and also whether women could be the cause of it. Finally I will look at a possible ?Oedipus complex
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and ignorance and Ophelia’s malleable behavior‚ and throughout the play Hamlet is rude and cynical to the two main female characters. Hamlet makes a sweeping generalization based on his Mother Gertrude and Ophelia that all women are morally corrupt‚ and in doing so he demonstrates a lack of trust in Gertrude that contributes to his madness and leads him to more trouble. The first time Hamlet is seen in the play he is angry at his mother for remarrying his uncle right after the death of her late
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Hamlet ’s Women: The Victims The women closest to Hamlet‚ Gertrude‚ his mother and Ophelia‚ his lover‚ are victims. The tragedy of Hamlet portrays many deaths and sorrows‚ but it is the women who suffer most‚ as they are treated like instruments to be used by the male characters to achieve their most pressing desires. As one reads the tragedy of Hamlet‚ it is obvious that the female characters play inferior yet important roles in it. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet during the 16th century‚ wherein women
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My Sons and Gertrude of Shakespeare’s Hamlet are both very different characters who share but very few similarities throughout the two plays. Ones knowing of their partner’s crime committed‚ one’s action of lying‚ and their different levels of intelligence‚ all prove that the two women are both different. Incorporated in both Hamlet and All My Sons‚ are mysteries. In Hamlet of course‚ is the mystery of Hamlet’s father’s death. Who murdered him? Claudius‚ we know. However Gertrude did not know
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Character Traits Gertrude Queen of Denmark‚ Caring “Did you assay him?” (14) Shows emotion of the Queen towards Hamlet Claudius King of Denmark Demanding “And can you by no drift of conference / Get from him why he puts on this confusion‚ / Grating so harshly all his days of quiet / With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?” (14) Demands to know why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can’t get the truth out of Hamlet Hamlet Son of the late King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude Suicidal “To be
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relationship with Gertrude and his soliloquy to portray Hamlet as confused‚ whereas Branagh uses the same dynamics to portray Hamlet as furious. Olivier presents Hamlet’s relationship with Gertrude as more physical in order to indicate Hamlet’s confusion‚ while Branagh presents the relationship between Hamlet and his mother as less physical to reinforce his feelings of frustration. During the scene where Claudius and Gertrude are encouraging Hamlet to stay in Denmark‚ Gertrude freely touches Hamlet
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acting as the disciplinarian in this scene. In Act 3‚ scene 4‚ this is where Hamlet and Gertrude are alone together for the first time. Hamlet expresses how angry and frustrated he is with his mother for the wicked act that she committed‚ which was marrying her own brother-in-law who is also known as the murderer. Hamlet is dominant from the start of the conversation even though Gertrude was the one who
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Defined by her sensual nature‚ Gertrude is heavily associated with the pitiful collapse of the Kingdom of Elsinore. “Gertrude’s flaw of lust made Claudius’ ambition possible‚ for without taking advantage of the Queen’s desire still to be married‚ he could not have been king” (Bloom 325). Unmistakably‚ Shakespeare portrays Gertrude as the corruption that accentuates the play. While the murder of Old King Hamlet lies at the hands of
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The play concerns it’s characters with personal and political problems. The women‚ Gertrude and Ophelia‚ struggle with making their own decisions without being influenced or directed by men. Ultimately‚ this leads both women to their death. Ophelia commits suicide. Gertrude unknowingly drank poisoned wine‚ despite being told by Claudius not to drink it. The end of this play can be inferred one of two ways: Gertrude knew it was poisoned and drank it to save Hamlet‚ or she simply disobeyed Claudius
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