Gertrude

will only do Claudius a favor by sending him to heaven for his sins may have already been forgiven. Instead, Hamlet decides to kill Claudius when he’s in the act of committing some other sin like drinking or in lust. Polonius tells Claudius that Gertrude wants to see Hamlet in her bedroom. He tells the king that he will hide behind an arras to listen in on their conversation. Polonius says mothers in nature are more biased when it comes to their…

mother’s hasty marriage to Claudius and is showering his supposed love, Ophelia, with gifts and words of affection. Queen Gertrude and Ophelia are blindly obedient to male authority due to the influence of the social standards that require women to be submissive to men. Male influence, the social norms of this time, and the females’ consequences of following these norms affect Queen Gertrude and Ophelia’s actions…

Gertrude thinks that Hamlet plans to murder her due to the aggressive way he is talking to her and that he is restraining her from moving. Hamlet means that he is going to be her mirror and show her how she’s been acting and who she is inside. Hamlet speaks with such anger because his mother accused him of disappointing his father, when Hamlet believes she is the one disappointing his father, and he hasn’t been able to say so to her directly before; so now that he is given the opportunity,…

Hamlet Villain Essay In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the city of Elsinore has sunk into mourning after the death of King Hamlet. Seeing this as an opportunity to gain power, King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius, hastily marries the Queen and assumes his role as the new King of Elsinore. Claudius addresses the grieving people by expressing his condolences, making mention of his recent marriage and Norway's plans to invade Denmark. Readers may see this as a charming and genuine leader merely undertaking his…

Gertrude says to Hamlet, “Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.” Hamlet’s depression and hopelessness is evident by what he says in…

move on. Life has gotten to be a struggle for him in more ways than just his mother marrying his uncle, his father just died less than two months ago and this leads Hamlet to believe his mother never loved his father. The tension between Claudius, Gertrude, and Hamlet rise from scene to scene. Hamlet then discovers that the ghost of his father has appeared before the guards in which he is excited and wants to speak with him at once. “My Lord, I think I saw him yesternight./ Saw? Who?/ My Lord,…

action, Hamlet can be characterized as a person of strength and honor. Some examples include his various soliloquies, analytical nature, and his decision to act when the time was right. Gertrude and Ophelia, who are two of the closest people to Hamlet, do not possess these traits and succumb to their weaknesses. For Gertrude, it is her sins of dishonesty and adultery that can indirectly seen as her paying for her actions when she drinks the chalice of poison. As for Ophelia, her weak emotional…

was the best chance to revenge for his father, but he hesitated. He was worried that Claudius would go to heaven after his death, so he decided to choose another time to assassinate him. However, he didn’t anticipate the decision would eventually lead to the tragedy which everyone dies in the end. In my opinion, he is a smart prince. He knew how to disguise himself and let others thought that he lost his mind, and used the play to imply that Claudius killed his father and tampered with the…

One of the times obedience plays a role is when Gertrude says, “I hope your virtues will bring him to his wonted ways again.” Gertrude says this to Ophelia so she will be obedient to Hamlet like she is supposed to be so he will return to normal. She does this because it is her role to fulfill that society made for her. There have been…

introduced to the audience as already being corrupt, as he killed his brother and married his sister-in-law for power. At first, the reader does not know that King Claudius is the one who killed King Hamlet; The reader only knows that he married Queen Gertrude immediately after his brother’s death (1.2 1-38). We find out later that King Claudius is actually the one who snuck into the king’s garden and poured…