Gertrude Stein

or characters that serve the purpose of highlighting the protagonist, including Laertes and Hamlet, Old Hamlet and Claudius, Hamlet and Fortinbras, and Claudius and Hamlet, Ophelia and Gertrude. In the final scene, everyone’s death is avenged with the complimenting deaths of the foils. The first to die, Gertrude, dies which then avenges Ophelia’s death. Then, Laertes’ gets revenge for Polonius’ death by stabbing Hamlet. When Hamlet stabs Claudius, he finally avenges his father’s death. When…

Hamlet by Shakespeare was written in the early 1600’s in England, it is an Elizabethan tragedy, and characteristics of the tragedy’s plot may include on-stage murder, ghosts, torture, grave yards, ambition, and severed limbs (Cash, Revenge strategy). During this time period the law did not apply to the wealthy and the royalty. So, if someone of royal status broke the law, as in murder, they would not get any punishment from the court. This is why the idea of requite- make appropriate return for…

The physical and psychological violence overlap throughout Hamlet and nearly all acts of violence revolve around the main character Hamlet. After Hamlet violently plunges his sword through the curtain in Gertrude’s chamber and kills Polonius the play undergoes a crucial turning point. Previous to Polonius’ murder, Hamlet, despite his many opportunities, only lashed out emotionally. However, as the scenes following the death of Polonius show, Hamlet turns away from inflicting emotional pain and…

he were to directly attack Gertrude about her marriage of Claudius it would make him more of a target. So he attacks Gertrude through the play he has put on for her and Claudius and with Ophelia. When performing the play, the queen in the play says “if, once a widow, ever I be wife” (III.ii.246), telling her husband that she will never remarry after he dies. This is Hamlet using the play to express how he feels a loyal wife should act in this situation and since Gertrude did the opposite, she is…

Polonius, and Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother. Gertrude’s husband, King Hamlet died, and then she went on to marry Claudius, Hamlet’s brother. Right from the start of the novel it seems as if Gertrude is a woman with control and power, as she dictates and chooses everything that she wants to do. Throughout the play, Gertrude displays attributes of a woman who is not bossed around and gets what she wants. On the contrary, Ophelia is…

Scene 1- For scene one I would like to incorporate a scary, sickening environment. This scene will have a dark backdrop, with a moon on the top left hand corner. The lighting required for this scene will be a blue mixed with green and black tints of lighting along with a fog machine and sounds of groans and a bit of howling of wind to give the scene an ominous feel. The stage will have four actors upon a synthetic stone front faced platform giving the looking of a castle lookout. With the use of…

issue within Hamlet as both Gertrude and Ophelia, the main females of Shakespeare’s play, are portrayed as dependent, submissive, and weak. This is done in order for Shakespeare to express his opinion that women of the Elizabethan period in which he lived in were required, without any choice, to be dependent on men, submissive, and not powerful as the era “treated women as objects” (Lopez, 1). To begin, Shakespeare shows the characterization of women through Gertrude as she remarried immediately…

Authors like Austen and Shakespeare create works with several layers within them requiring the reader to study and sift through the text to fully understand the ideas presented. Readers use different subject based lenses, for example historical context, wealth, marriage or others to dissect the elements pertaining to a work in pursuit of discovering the opinion displayed in the piece. The lens of marriage within Austen’s work of Emma reveals the aspects of wanting advancement in social class,…

the power of the throne, Claudius becomes responsible for the deaths of all members of his family. Gertrude, his wife that he supposedly loved, is killed by the poison that Claudius poured. Claudius murmurs that “It is the poison’d cup: it is too late” (V.ii.235) as Gertrude drinks from the poison filled cup. His plans involved murdering King Hamlet; however, the murders of Prince Hamlet and Gertrude symbolize the chaos that arose from Claudius’s need to rearrange his world. Finally, as a…

Throughout Shakespeare’s writing, he develops a common theme that many forms of madness leads to death. He illustrates the theme through his character such as those portrayed in the tragedy of Hamlet. These characters are overtaken by their own form of madness. The descent into insanity lead to characters’ taking extreme actions. Shakespeare implies the theme of madness throughout the plot of Hamlet. Madness is portrayed through the protagonist, Hamlet and spreads like a plague to those around…