Essays Tagged: "Gertrude (Hamlet)"
Hamlet
to poison being poured in the ear-the method he used to murder Hamlet's father. Claudius's love for Gertrude may be sincere, but it also seems likely that he married her as a strategic move, to help h ... s, Claudius's mounting fear of Hamlet's insanity leads him to ever greater self-preoccupation; when Gertrude tells him that Hamlet has killed Polonius, Claudius does not remark that Gertrude might hav ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
The Roles of Laertes and Ophelia as Character Foils in Hamlet
two families focused upon in the play: there is the royal family, consisting of Hamlet, his mother Gertrude, the Queen, and his stepfather Claudius, the current King of Denmark; and there is the fami ... hat they face. Both have been disappointed by someone whom they love - Hamlet being disappointed by Gertrude's "o'erhasty marriage", Ophelia by Hamlet's rough treatment of her during his supposed madn ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet