It is said that “To be betrayed by ones own blood is unforgivable and one must get revenge.” Betrayal plays a very important role in the Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet. Throughout the play‚ Hamlet is betrayed by his own mother‚ Gertrude. She betrays her son and her late-husband‚ the king by immediately marrying Claudius‚ the king’s own brother. Hamlets girlfriend‚ the lady Ophelia‚ even breaks the heart of the prince and deludes him. Even Hamlet betrays several people: he misleads Horatio‚ his friend
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victims in a man’s world? Although Shakespeare’s primary concern in his plays is not to portray women as victim’s‚ to an outsider looking in this is what it may seem like as there are only two women in the play (Ophelia; Polonius’ daughter‚ and Gertrude; Queen and Hamlet’s mother) and both end up dying. Some people say that Shakespeare presents women throughout "Hamlet" as easy to convince and submissive to men and their demands. This is not too strange for a play of Shakespeare’s time however as
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mental instability‚ most notably Hamlet‚ Ophelia‚ and Gertrude. The apparent “madness” of these characters develops and drives the plot‚ which results in the play’s tragic ending. It is the reader’s responsibility to decipher which characters are actually mentally ill and which are merely pretending. Furthermore‚ it is important to keep track of which characters believe other characters are mentally ill. The most important of these is Gertrude‚ Polonius‚ and King Claudius’ belief that Hamlet is
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she felt Gertrude Stein’s “appreciation” on her like a ribbon of steel. She felt her flesh rubbing against it‚ she felt sweat dripping down her back‚ sliding down her back‚ sliding down the side of her thighs. She crossed her legs‚ and Gertrude Stein looked at her as if she knew‚ Salt enhances the sweetness. Delicious thought GertrudeStein” (184). Troung is insisting the meaning of salt which came from sweat but in this case‚ the sweat is not of labor but of love. Truong describes Gertrude Stein thinking
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and his mother‚ Queen Gertrude‚ have a difficult relationship that is quite tense and not the most loving. Hamlet is astonished and conflicted about his feeling towards Gertrude when “she married [his uncle at] most wicked speed” (1.2.161). It has been only two months after King Hamlet’s death and tension arises between this mother and son relationship. He has not had enough time to mourn over the loss of the King and will not be celebrating the new marriage. Queen Gertrude has made the decision
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Claudius and his queen Gertrude. During his speech we learn that he has married his sister-in-law Gertrude. “Our sometime sister now our queen” this already displays a corrupt society as the heads of state are involved in incestuous activity. The hast of their marriage‚ “the memory be green” also shows that there may have been plans before the loss of King Hamlet which then leads to the doubt of queen Gertrude’s intentions . The audience can chose how to interpret queen Gertrude ‚ either as a confused
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In Shakespeare’s text‚ Hamlet’s insistence that Gertrude has rushed to “incestuous sheets” conveys a far less sympathetic view of her character‚ and essentially putting her at fault for marrying Claudius and betraying the late King Hamlet. Instead‚ the directors use the nuances of a setting in order to
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By: Annette Irizarry The Parallels Between Two Families "It is morning again‚ and she is still here..." These are the words D.H. Lawrence wrote to a friend describing his terminally ill mother in 1913. "I look at my mother and think O Heaven-is this what life brings us to?’ You see mother has had a devilish married life‚ for nearly forty years- and this is the conclusion- no relief." (Baron’s Educational Series‚ 1993). At the time this letter was written Lawrence was fictionalizing his relationship
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Shakespeare about a man named Hamlet. The scene is set in Denmark in the 17th century and the king of Denmark has died. Hamlet‚ the son of the late king‚ is depressed since the death of his father‚ and his mother‚ named Gertrude‚ has already remarried. The new king‚ who has married Gertrude after only a few months‚ is Claudius‚ Hamlet’s uncle and new step father. Everyone else in the play has moved on from the late King’s death so quickly‚ but Hamlet is still in mourning. He even contemplates death
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the play are clearly more flawed in comparison to Hamlet. As a result of this character’s imperfection‚ many of the characters within the play Hamlet are considered tragic; however‚ those in which this trait is predominant are Claudius‚ Laertes and Gertrude. In order to illustrate that the supporting characters are in fact more tragic than Hamlet‚ one needs to take
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