Gertrude

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,…

melancholy sits on a broods, and I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger,” (III, I, 178-181), Claudius believes Hamlet’s sorrow has a deeper meaning behind it. To discover Hamlet’s intensions he uses Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Gertrude and Polonius to spy on Hamlet. His fear of Hamlet’s intensions increase so much that he continuously needs information from others regarding Hamlet. Once Claudius finds out Hamlet’s dangerous side, his paranoia causes him to make very…

scene II is played during a festivity with a sweeter than bitter theme (except for Hamlet, who still mourns his father). In scene II, the main characters (including Gertrude) are introduced, beginning with Claudius, the new king. Claudius show’s little to no grief over his brother’s death, in fact, he marries his late brother’s wife, Gertrude, in less than two months after such event. In many occasions, with the help of the queen, he attempts to convince Hamlet that his grief over…

and wife. He is a mastermind in lying, manipulation and covering his own tracks to get people to side with him and go against one another. The main character he manipulates is his wife, Gertrude. He is constantly lying to her and hides his secrets of killing Hamlet and how he killed his brother by telling Gertrude he loves her and that she is special to him. He uses sex in order to get what he wants, physically and as a ruler. During the middle of the play, we see Claudius praying, trying to rid…

Gertrude submits to Claudius by marrying him without hesitation, rather than thinking for herself and taking the opportunity to become a self-sufficient, independent woman that would dispute the norm. She has a tendency to please men to fulfil her taught instinct for self-preservation—which, of course, makes her extremely passive and dependent upon the men in her life. Hamlet’s comment about Gertrude is his furious condemnation of women in general: “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (Act 1 Scene 2).…

director Hamlet, Gertrude, Polonius and the Ghost all would have a certain roles. I would have the room look quite large and elegant. There would be large tapestries on the wall where Polonius could hide behind. The queens original attitude would be quite blunt as Polonius had recommend. When Hamlet begins to speak to his mother and says, “Go, go you question with wicked tongue”(3.5.15) I would have Hamlet look insane and almost ready to grab Gertrude in anger when she questions him. Gertrude…

points out the uneasiness of the situation. He compared the events leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar to the events happening in the story. Act 1 Scene 2 We are introduced to Claudius who is marrying Gertrude. Claudius was brothers to the king who was married to Gertrude. We are…

ten lines merely to inform Claudius and Gertrude of what they know already - that their son is mad. This is an amusing episode for the audience, as by admitting that wit is denoted by brevity and then failing to demonstrate any ability to be brief, Polonius effectively calls himself witless and the audience laughs at his ignorance of his own inferior intelligence. It is plain that this is evident as much to the other characters as to the audience, as Gertrude makes clear with her gently mocking…

Hamlet treats women without any respect and hatred. Hamlet one of the most important characters in Shakespeare’s play. Hamlet is strong and complicated, which is caused by two main women in his life, Gertrude, his mother and the queen of Denmark, and Ophelia. He blames his mother for her actions in marrying King Hamlet’s brother also he treats Ophelia, the woman he loves unfair and with cruelty. Hamlet’s initial lover was Ophelia, she won his love and still loved him. Hamlet, however promised to…

morality, and spiritual understanding within the enormous tapestry of saints. Saint Gertrude the Great stands out as a source of motivation and direction for those seeking a close relationship with God. In this article, we examine the personal relevance of Saint Gertrude's biography and highlight noteworthy characteristics that set her apart as a significant figure in Christian history: Born in 1256, Saint Gertrude the Great was a very spiritual Benedictine nun. She committed her life to prayer,…