Happiness In Hamlet

In addition, Gertrude goes through a moment where she is figuratively blind when making a judgment. When Hamlet told her about how King Hamlet was killed she didn’t believe it. He says she has been blind this whole time to it and even though Claudius appears innocent he is not. Gertrude married soon after King Hamlet’s death because her love and loneliness blinded her. This led to her to make incestuous actions. Hamlet is annoyed with his mother and how naive she is to his father’s death:

Gertrude remarries nearly a week since her husband’s death; this causes Hamlet much concern about the loyalty and fidelity of females as he questions, “O, most wicked speed to post/ With such dexterity to incestuous sheets” (1.2.161-162). However, Gertrude does not see her as actions as iniquitous; she pleads Hamlet to “let eye look like a friend on Denmark,” (1.2.69) she wants Hamlet to discard his loathing of Claudius. Following the murder of his father, Hamlet’s relationship with Gertrude is portrayed as odious; Hamlet presumes Gertrude to be a true felon in the death of his father. Communicating with the his father’s ghost, Hamlet says, “O most pernicious woman!/ O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!” (1.5.112-113). Hamlet accuses Gertrude of “kill a king and marry with his brother;” (3.4.35) Hamlet associates Gertrude with the murder of his father and through this, he exemplifies his true disdain for Gertrude. Hamlet’s assertion that Gertrude had a role in the killing of his father sets a portrayal of Gertrude throughout the course of he play. Consequently, Gertrude’s complex representation renders her indecipherable; the reader only understands Gertrude’s character through Hamlet’s depiction of

Hamlet also manages to both degrade himself and his uncle in another comparison, saying his uncle was “no more like my father / Than I to Hercules” (1.2.152-3). Though such strong comparisons to romanticized and mythical figures could are partially simple hyperbole, they also underscore some of the insecurity in Hamlet’s character. The value in recognizing this comes as Hamlet descends into his madness, whether real or imaginary, where the reader can see that, even before Hamlet deliberately decides to appear to be “mad” he has certain issues and insecurities with his own feelings. Even more significantly, this passage begins to elaborate on Hamlet’s relationship with his mother. Gertrude represents an interesting dilemma for the deconstructionist critic, as she does not create or involve herself in many conflicts or oppositions. She manages to significantly affect the plot and the subtext of the play while seeming almost insignificant as a character at first glance through the deconstructionist lens. She does not overtly affect events, and often plays the victim of circumstance. This very insignificance creates an issue for Hamlet, who is clearly quite disgusted with her behavior. He vehemently disapproves of the speed of her marriage to Claudius, saying that “a beast, that wants discourse of reason, / Would have mourned longer” (1.2.150-1), but can find no other strong criticism of her other than how fast she remarried. This strikes at the

Due to Hamlet’s psychological state, he felt confused and betrayed by his mother. His mother marrying his dead father’s brother opened gates to his madness. To Hamlet’s mind, women represent frailty; they are weak and regard them as an embodiment of weakness. He referred to his mother as a morally and spiritually weak woman as her incestuous inconstancy drove her to remarry immediately after her husband’s death and that she committed a sin. The most notable frailty of Gertrude seems to be that, whether by nature or nurture, she cannot exist without men. He recorded saying that Gertrude, “a little month or ere those shoes were old, with which she followed mo poor father’s body” (1.2.147-148). She needs a man as her guide to her perception

In our daily lives most people face family problems on a daily basis even a fictional character can relate to these struggles. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, created by William Shakespeare is one of the world's most known historical characters. In this play Hamlet’s father dies, his mother married his uncle. Hamlet's father was the former King of Denmark, who was poisoned by his own brother in the ear while he was asleep. Not even a month after the death of his father, his mother decided to marry his uncle. Hamlet has the justification to avenge his uncle for his father's death, who has married his mother and became the new king. All this had led to Hamlet’s psychological disorders , his father’s death, his mother marrying his uncle, and

Individuals are often put into situations in which they must compromise their happiness to achieve what they desire. The loss of this happiness can be extremely detrimental to the individual's emotional state. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare explores the idea of how happiness can be conceded in the pursuit of ones’ goals and how conceding this happiness has negative impacts. Hamlet, the main character of the play, is pushed into a situation where he must murder his uncle to avenge his father. In Hamlets’ pursuit of this goal, he sacrifices his freedom, his love, and his overall well-being, leaving him an emotionally broken individual.

Queen Gertrude is the mother to Hamlet, widow to the late King, and new wife to King Claudius as shown within the first act of Hamlet. Following her marriage to King Claudius, her relationship with her son Hamlet becomes strained. Queen Gertrude symbolizes much of what is considered to be a negative aspect of womanhood. To Hamlet, Queen Gertrude is a failure of a woman. Through his dialogue, it is presented that Hamlet desires a woman and mother to be concerned for her family and place tradition above all else. When Hamlet’s mother makes a decision outside of that realm and marries King Claudius, Hamlet strives to berate her for her choices. Through

The idea of a happy ending, to the common person, is the cliche ending of a story in which the protagonist gets the damsel, saves the world, and survives near death. However, this is a very simple way to look at the concept of a “happy ending” and neglects the grand scheme of things, just as there are more complicated equations in mathematics as one progresses in school, there are more complicated elements in a story as we look to dig deeper into literature. A story that has a complex happy ending is Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the story of a man seeking revenge on his family that has caused him much despair. If we look at this play in a simple manner, we will probably not look at the ending as happy ending as our beloved characters die,

Hamlet's rant to persuade her that Claudius is a bad man and the murderer of his father depicts his disrespect to his mother. For instance, he tells her, "You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you." (III.iv.20-21) He is threatening his own mother! Later, he addresses her as "thou wretched, rash, intruding fool" (III.iv.32) Even though Gertrude's lust for Claudius aggravates him, Hamlet fails to show even the most fundamental respect to his superior. The relationship is full of disloyalty and distrust from Gertrude's part. First, she appeases, "Be thou assured... I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me." (III.iv.201-203) It is assumed that she will listen to Hamlet and stay away from Claudius. However, in the next act, she displays her true loyalty to her husband, telling him that Hamlet is "in this brainish apprehension kills / The unseen good old man." (IV.I.12-13) This is partially contributed by her observations of her son talking to a ghost that she doesn't see. Polonius' death causes her to think Hamlet is dangerous, further driving the two apart. Her distrust to her son harms him by further solidifying Claudius' plan to execute him in England because the king sees him as a threat to the throne who is capable of killing. In the end, Hamlet and Gertrude's relationship take a bittersweet ending.

He also helps Hamlet in many ways throughout the play after his arrival and does not let anyone persuade him to do otherwise, like some of Hamlet’s other “friends”. Hamlet enters the play grief stricken by the death of his father, King Hamlet. Prince Hamlet is shown to be very vengeful throughout most of the play towards his uncle, King Claudius, who has married his mother, Queen Gertrude. Hamlet shows his determination through the play to

He is brokenhearted over the death of his father and the lack of mourning his mother discharged. The anger of Hamlet is expressed indirectly and directly through his words, both to other characters and to himself. According to Hamlet, Gertrude is too caught up in rejoicing over her new marriage, while King Hamlet was just “but two months dead” (1.2.142). Hamlet’s view of love is transformed, as he notes that when Gertrude was with his father, he was “so loving” to her and “she would hang on him” (1.2.143,147).

He has a deep connection with Gertrude, since she is his mother. After the marriage, Hamlet is in disbelief with her. He cannot understand why she would betray the memory of his father and betray him at the same time. Hamlet confronts Gertrude to try to make sense ofher behavior. “Nay but to live / In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, / Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love / Over the nasty sty” (3:4:103-106). He resents her for her sexual weakness in marrying

Despite her passive character, many of Gertrude’s actions influence the mental deterioration and eventual death of her son, Hamlet. Prior to the beginning of the play, Gertrude marries Claudius, the brother of the deceased king. Hamlet’s thoughts about this incestuous marriage are evident in his first soliloquy when he states “O, that this too too-solid flesh would melt” (I . II . 129). The fact that Hamlet contemplates taking his own life because of his mother’s incetuous marriage demenstrates the instability of his mind. In addition to the immoral act of marrying the brother of one’s former husband, Gertrude works alongside Claudius by sending Guildenstern and Rosencrantz to question Hamlet’s strange behavior. During the confrontation between these three men, Hamlet remains aloof in his responses and says “when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw”(II . II .

On William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, after the assassination of his father, Hamlet thinks he is living in a world full of corruption and deceit, where everything is falling apart and everyone is against him. An imminent, exaggerated, and passionate love for his mother is his main feature. Although others argue that Hamlet’s obsession to murder Claudius is strictly to claim revenge for his father’s death, it is Hamlet’s obsessive desire to possess his mother in an unhealthy and, perhaps incestuous, relationship. Hamlet also appears jealous of Claudius, his father-uncle, jealous of him for having Gertrude and for owning the crown. He lives a love-hate relationship with his mother. He is full of anger towards her, but at the same time he

Many years ago, Shakespeare wrote: “To be or not to be? That is the question.” We’ve all heard that famous quote from Hamlet misquoted. The actual meaning of the quote is more along the lines of questioning whether to exist or not. The young prince of Denmark is contemplating suicide.