house in the Hamptons. But I let her stay for the rest of the night. She needed my help and I couldn’t bring myself to flout her. God forbid something were to happen to the broad‚ well‚ I’d censure myself for the rest of my life. For the mean time‚ Gertrude would be adjunct to my life and I would have to put up with it. A long chat and a bottle of whisky later she filled me in on every dirty detail of her belligerent attitude towards her recent beau. But this man was not any beau. He was the most dangerous
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Hamlet and Gertrude: Love or Hate Imagine it‚ while away at college you receive word that your beloved father who had seemed in good health only a short while ago has died leaving your mother and yourself. This situation would be enough to bring great depression to even the strongest of souls but for Hamlet‚ the fictional prince of Denmark in Shakespeare’s play of the same name‚ this is not his imagination but cruel reality. Not only has his father passed but‚ as if to mock the very memory
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uncle Claudius‚ who has murdered Hamlet’s father‚ the King‚ and then taken the throne and married Hamlet’s mother. In this play‚ Gertrude is Hamlet’s mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent‚ since he resents her for marrying her husband’s brother Claudius after he murdered the King (young Hamlet’s father‚ King Hamlet). Gertrude is first seen in Act 1 Scene 2 as she tries to comfort Hamlet about the death of his father‚ begging him to stay at home rather than
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Lilla Gertrude Shelor was the oldest of Ellis and Hattie Webb Shelor’s nine children. At a young age‚ Lilla was expected to help with the house and the younger children. She remembered looking after her younger brother Sandy when she was too little to lift him out of his bed. She watched her siblings when Hattie was out in the fields with Ellis‚ working in the garden‚ or tending to the cow. As the years went by and more brothers were born‚ Hattie came to rely more and more on Lilla’s help. Lilla
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Movement and Space within “Portraits and Repetition‚” by Gertrude Stein Gertrude Steins’ “Portraits and Repetitions‚” facilitates the paradigm of linguistic displacement between subject and listener delineated by the dynamic and effectual relationship of the interrelated‚ rhythmic patterns characterized by the idea of movement as existence. This conviction denotes the essence of mobility portrayed throughout the text‚ the individual and collectives while commissioning itself through geographical
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Gertrude & Hamlet Gertrude is Over Protective Gertrude worries about Hamlet being crazy Gertrude becomes Scared Gertrude becomes Over Protective Again Gertrude & Ophelia Gertrude feels guilty Gertrude feels sorrow Gertrude wants to help Gertrude feels guilty again Gertrude & Laertes Gertrude feels Guilty Gertrude keeps a distance Gertrude wants to console Details: Gertrude is over protective after Hamlet loses his father and she demonstrates it by telling the King
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links back to one idea of revenge. There is one major character‚ however‚ who does not seem to fit this Shakespearean archetype- Queen Gertrude. Her role in the play is often minimized‚ reduced only to be seen in terms of her incestuous affair and the effect it had on the major male characters of the book. Of the two female characters‚ Ophelia and Gertrude‚ Gertrude is viewed as especially weak due to her seeming lack of ability to stand up for herself or seek justice for the murder of her first husband
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November 2013 The Single Persona of Ophelia and Gertrude According to Shakespeare‚ Elsinore did not require more than two women‚ let alone two unique women. On a larger scale‚ the society in which Shakespeare wrote agreed that most women were indistinguishable: women in general did not hold positions of prominence and did not demand recognition. In all of Shakespeare’s plays‚ a meager 126 female characters develop; of these‚ Ophelia and Gertrude play minor roles in Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ having
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1920 Biography About Caroline Gertrude Ederle American swimmer‚ the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Born in New York City‚ Ederle began swimming as a young child and started competing as a teenager. From 1921 to 1925 she broke many American and world swimming records. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris‚ France‚ Ederle won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay and bronze medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle races. Looking for a new challenge‚ Ederle turned to channel
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She is only a consequential factor when attached to a man. Gertrude takes the blame for the madness Hamlet is undergoing. She represents the motherhood aspect of feminism; if there is something wrong with a child‚ it is usually the other who is at fault (fathers are more like ghosts unless they are congratulating their children). It is possible that Gertrude played a sort of Ophelia type character prior to King Hamlet’s death but was finally free from his captivity
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