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    Hamlet, Gertrude is just a woman who way number damage but whose bad judgment attributes significantly to the awful events that occur. You will find easiest woman people in the enjoy, and neither one--Gertrude or Ophelia--is assertive. though the conclusions Gertrude does produce in the course of time trigger her collapse and the problem of the others as properly. We first understand in Behave I, World 2 that poor judgment is her necessary person flaw. while the mom of a grieving boy, Gertrude should

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    Queen Gertrude is a character in the Shakespearian play Hamlet. She is a very secretive character. After the death of her husband, King Hamlet, she marries her former brother in law, Claudius. In the play, Shakespeare portrays her as sexually driven woman. Even though she has caused hamlet, her son, a great deal of pain, Gertrude is very protective of him. Hamlet is blinded by revenge and accusations that he fails to see his mother for what she truly is. Throughout the play, Hamlet is disappointed

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    Gertrude and Ophelia

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    Shakespeare demonstrates that both Gertrude and Ophelia deserve their fate. The women deserve their fate because of their inability to be independent. Polonius instructs Ophelia to be aware of her shallow emotions and to display herself as more valuable by not responding to Hamlets every command. When Polonius

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    Gertrude In Hamlet

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    Motivated by her thirst to maintain a position of power, Gertrude in my opinion, was a very strong character because of her calculating and deceptive nature to mislead the people. For example, in her position, Gertrude was well informed of a plot to murder Hamlet; yet, she maintain silence until her time of death to avoid implicating herself in the plot .For such a quite character, she had some drastic effects in the play. If you look at her, she is like a pawn in a chess match, once a pawn reaches

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    Weaknesses In Gertrude

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    Paragraph 1: women are an embodiment of weakness; lack of independence Situated: Quote: ‘frailty is thy name; woman’ Obvious meaning: Gertrude is extremely dependent upon the men in her life. Her reliance on men appears to be her sole way of capitalizing on her abilities. Despite Hamlet losing respect for here. Effect: Men acted female parts. While they may have acted very well and all were accepted by Elizabethan audiences, unlike women who were not given the opportunities to act on stage until

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    named female characters— Gertrude, the queen of Denmark and Ophelia, the prince's lover—who are portrayed as delicate and helpless. Gertrude and Ophelia appear to be trivial, submissive heroines who fade into the background of a patriarchal society then die tragically; however, upon further analysis, they are clearly vital to the plot and flow of the play. Gertrude and Ophelia greatly influence the male characters and abet the action in Hamlet. Shakespeare presents Gertrude and Ophelia as traditional

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    this play, Ophelia and Gertrude, take the role of what today’s society thinks a man should act as or have an impact on. Firstly, the daughter of a Polonius in Hamlet, Ophelia, effects the play in many ways as well as, Gertrude, the mother of Hamlet. They give many examples of how a woman can bring inconvenience or distress to one’s family. This sort of distress eventually leads to the death of several characters in the Shakespeare’s play: King Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Laertes, Prince Hamlet

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    Though her death arouses pity, Gertrude is not solely a victim of Hamlet. Gertrude betrays Hamlet and his late father by marrying Claudius as the new king. Though she does not know that he is responsible for her first husband’s death, Gertrude still remarries just a month after the King’s death- and to her brother no less! It is fairly presumable that she and Claudius were engaged in an extramarital affair and Hamlet is not blind to this. Set to take action, Hamlet “set[s] [his mother] up a glass

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    their lives dictate their emotion, which leads to a transformation in the characters. Gertrude is seemingly unchanging in the play until Hamlet kills Laertes. Her love for Hamlet is shown through her concern when she says: “O Hamlet, speak no more!/ Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul,/ And there I see such black and grained spots/ as will not leave their tinct”. (3. 4. 99). Hamlet’s actions spark a change in Gertrude; she begins to question the world and the people in her life. At this point, Gertrude’s

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    Linette Martir Ms. Given Honors English 21 December 2017 Queen Gertrude and Ophelia as Servants in a Royal Castle of Males “We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another” (Vallaud-Belkacem). Literary theories are lenses through which one can see in literature. An example of a literary theory is the feminist theory, which is created to enlighten others on social problem that are ignored or misinterpreted. Feminism

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