confrontations/lack thereof will you discuss? Hamlet and Ophelia Gertrude and Hamlet Hamlet and Claudius What confrontations do these relationships show? Hamlet and Ophelia Confrontation about love (Reason for confrontation – Father and the King – showing no care from her) deceit Gertrude and Hamlet Avoidance of confrontation about her actions (Closet scene Confrontation) Hamlet and Claudius Avoidance – Spying‚ sending him away‚ R&G‚ Ophelia‚ Gertrude Confrontation Final confrontation – Murder and Play
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Plot: Act III‚ Scene I starts off with Claudius‚ Gertrude‚ Polonius‚ Ophelia‚ Rosencrantz‚ Guildenstern coming on stage. Claudius and Gertrude converse with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about the cause of Hamlet’s lunacy. When Claudius questions Rosencrantz and Guildenstern‚ they tell the King and the Queen that they have not been able to determine the cause of his lunacy. King asks if they tried to cheer him up and they answer by saying that the players cheered him up. Polonius encourages both to
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mother‚ Queen Gertrude‚ is torn apart by the two men she loves: her son Hamlet and her new husband‚ King Claudius. Hamlet loved his father and does not want to let go and move on from his death so quickly. He is not prepared nor is he willing to forget so quickly about the man and king his now dead father used to be. Claudius‚ however‚ usurped the throne of his brother‚ married his wife‚ and now wants everyone to forget about Hamlet Sr. entirely and move on with their lives. Gertrude is caught in
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characters are often very wrong about the females in the play. The men completely misread the women and in Ophelia and Gertrude’s situation‚ the consequences are very tragic. In order to address this issue‚ it is necessary to explore the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet and the characters of Hero and Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing‚ and in addition‚ how they are treated by other characters. This will then enable me to pass my own judgement‚ as to how the women are represented in the two
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background influenced their portrayal in Hamlet: Ophelia and Gertrude are described as manipulative‚ destructive‚ and sinful. Through gender roles‚ literature has altered the portrayal of women from its intended purpose to show their vulnerability to men because of gender stereotypes‚ gender oppression‚ and gender inequality. To commence‚ both Hamlet and Polonius demonstrate their own interpretation of the women in their lives: Gertrude and Ophelia‚ therefore‚ emphasizing the gender
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or dying. Through this example that the whole play is “structured to choose either one action over another” In addition‚ Shakespeare uses a synecdoche to reveal morality through Hamlet’s doubt. For instance in Act 1 Scene 2 after both Claudius and Gertrude leave court‚ Hamlet asks himself “O that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!” (1.2.129-59). In this example Shakespeare uses “flesh to represent
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Like all the bright little colored boys and girls whom I knew when I was growing up in the 50’s‚ I wanted to be a doctor. More accurately‚ my mother raised me to be a doctor. In a thousand ways‚ some subtle and some not so subtle‚ my mother implanted the idea that the sole calling worthy of the name was that of the physician. I do not use that word ’’calling’’ lightly. For my mom‚ physicians -- those masters of the cabalistic mysteries of universes seen and unseen -- were not only the most richly
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play Hamlet‚ shows women to rely on the men‚ Shows that the women were dominated and inferior to the men. Queen Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother whose husband dies and a few months later she remarries her husband’s brother‚ and as expected hamlet is upset and says “frailty‚ thy name is women” (Act I Scene II) he is making a connection between female sexuality and moral corruption. Queen Gertrude lives completely reliant on on men. She has the inability to think on her own‚ Claudius makes all
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themselves out there and to not be afraid to be themselves. Of the Harlem Renaissance‚ the ones who stood out the most were‚ Langston Hughes‚ Zora Neale Hurston‚ Gertrude “Ma” Rainey‚ Bessie Smith‚and Lucille Bogan to name a few. In this list actually there is many whom consider themselves to be apart of of the LGBTQ community such as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey‚ Langston Hughes‚ Bessie Smith and Lucille Bogan. The African American Women of the Harlem Renaissance fought homophobia and heteronormativity by sharing
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One of the most famous and popular authors and script writers is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has always been able to create interesting characters and one of the reasons they are so interesting might be that they are complex people with their inner selves differing from their outer selves. Are the characters in Hamlet the same on the inside as they appear to be on the outside? The characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet can be studied in a manner relating to appearance
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