Hamlet's Love for His Women
Hamlet’s love for his women.
In the play "Hamlet", was an unfortunate university undergraduate, whose life was disrupted by a series of events, including the death of his father and the marriage of his mother to the suspected murderer of his father. Even under such circumstances, Hamlet never relinquished his love for the two women he loved, Gertrude and Ophelia, and instinctively tried to protect them from their reliance on men by feigning madness, which ironically caused their demise.
As a child, Hamlet was a young prince living in a happy family. Unfortunately, his life was shattered by the death of his father and the second marriage of his dear mother to Claudius, a person whom he suspected to be responsible for his father death.
Modern folklore suggests women look at a man's relationship with his mother to predict how they will treat other women in their life. Hamlet is a good example of a son's treatment of his mother reflecting how he will treat the woman he loves because when considering Hamlet's attitude and treatment of the Ophelia in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, one must first consider how
Hamlet treated his mother. A characteristic of Hamlet's personality is to make broad, sweeping generalizations and nowhere is this more evident than in his treatment toward women. Very early in the play, while discussing his mother's transgressions, he comments, “Frailty, thy name is woman. (1.2.146).” Hamlet appears to believe all women act in the same manner as his mother.
The first time the audience meets Hamlet, he is angry and upset at Queen
Gertrude, his mother, for remarrying his uncle so soon after the death of his father. In his first soliloquy he comments on the speed of her remarriage
Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
In the play "Hamlet", was an unfortunate university undergraduate, whose life was disrupted by a series of events, including the death of his father and the marriage of his mother to the suspected murderer of his father. Even under such circumstances, Hamlet never relinquished his love for the two women he loved, Gertrude and Ophelia, and instinctively tried to protect them from their reliance on men by feigning madness, which ironically caused their demise.
As a child, Hamlet was a young prince living in a happy family. Unfortunately, his life was shattered by the death of his father and the second marriage of his dear mother to Claudius, a person whom he suspected to be responsible for his father death.
Modern folklore suggests women look at a man's relationship with his mother to predict how they will treat other women in their life. Hamlet is a good example of a son's treatment of his mother reflecting how he will treat the woman he loves because when considering Hamlet's attitude and treatment of the Ophelia in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, one must first consider how
Hamlet treated his mother. A characteristic of Hamlet's personality is to make broad, sweeping generalizations and nowhere is this more evident than in his treatment toward women. Very early in the play, while discussing his mother's transgressions, he comments, “Frailty, thy name is woman. (1.2.146).” Hamlet appears to believe all women act in the same manner as his mother.
The first time the audience meets Hamlet, he is angry and upset at Queen
Gertrude, his mother, for remarrying his uncle so soon after the death of his father. In his first soliloquy he comments on the speed of her remarriage
Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.