How Does Shakespeare Present His Mother's Relationship In Hamlet

Shakespeare develops Hamlet's character in relation with other characters through Hamlet's first three soliloquies. In this play, Hamlet character is developed in relation with his mother throughout Act 1.2. This soliloquy is important to Hamlet's character because it gives reason to his severe depression. It does this by using weariness, despair, nausea and loathing to create more significant emotions. Hamlet and his mother have a very conflicting relationship, this is developed throughout this soliloquy shows that he is extremely upset with the way his mother mourned his father. In the soliloquy in Act 1.2 Hamlet establishes a relationship of conflict with his mother. Hamlet is angry with his mother for her quick remarriage to Claudius and continuously reprimands her for this throughout the soliloquy. He implies that his mother is weak for remarrying so quickly by saying “Frailty, thy name is woman” (150). He says that she's lesser than an animal, for even a “beast” without “reason” would mourn longer than the month his mother did. (154). …show more content…
An example of this is when Hamlet comments that Claudius is no, "more like my father than I to Hercules". By saying this, Shakespear metaphorically shows that Hamlet loathes Claudius. Hamlet suggests that the tears she had for her husband were “unrighteous” (159). Finally, he describes her remarriage in harsh terms, accusing her of marrying with “wicked speed” (161) and moving “with such dexterity to incestuous sheets” (162). In this play, Hamlet character is developed in relation with his mother throughout Act 1.2. In other words, Hamlet considers his mother’s actions wicked and immoral because of the speed with which she remarried and because she married a near relative: her