Hamlet 17
1. As the play opens, Hamlet is troubled by the turn of events following his father's death. It seems (and later becomes apparent), that Hamlet's upset is caused more by the remarriage of his mother and her love and devotion towards Claudius so soon after King Hamlet's death, than by simple mourning of his fathers passing. This is shown in lines 147-162 "Why she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on. And yet, within a month / (Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman!)…She married, O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" [Act I, Scene II, Ll.147-162]
2. Hamlet seems melancholic and satirical at the ...
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detachment and an obvious satirical mood. In lines 79-89 of the same scene, Hamlet opens up a little more to his mother after she asks him why it is that he "seems" so distressed/depressed by his father death, explaining to him "All that lives must die." [Act I, Scene II, L. 74]. In response to his mothers question Hamlet explains that he does not act his depression, and he is still truly grieving, saying "I have that within which passes show, / These but the trappings and the suits of woe." [Act I, Scene II, Ll. 88-89]. Then, near the end of the scene, Hamlet delivers a soliloquy - giving the most vivid picture of his mood in the beginning of the play. In the soliloquy, Hamlet laments his religion's "canon 'gainst self-slaughter" [Act I, Scene II, L. 136] and curses the world and his mother (for her marriage to Claudius) as well, exposing his deep depression in full.
3. In Act I, Scene II, Claudius makes his first appearance. The impression of Claudius I received from ...
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Ophelia, then his "madness", and also the nature of this supposed madness (love for Ophelia), saying (after jumping to a conclusion regarding Hamlet and finding himself to be wrong just recently) "If he love her not, / And be not from his reason fall'n thereon, / Let me be no assistant for a state, / But keep a farm and carters." [Act II, Scene II, Ll. 178-181].
5. I am going to refute the basis of this question and argue instead that Gertrude is ruled by those people around her in her everyday life. I do not believe that Gertrude can be ruled by her emotions because she lacks the (moral) independence to be happy or sad as a result of situations surrounding her. Throughout ...
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