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The Mother and Son Relationship in Hamlet

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In many of his plays, especially tragedies, William Shakespeare examines the relationships people have with one another. Of these relationships, he is particularly interested in those between family members, above all, those between parents and their children. In his play Hamlet, Shakespeare examines Prince Hamlet’s relationships with his dead father, mother and step-father. His relationship with Gertrude, one of the only two women in the play, provides Hamlet with a deep sense of anger and pain. In their first confrontation , the queen appears so indifferent to her son. They taking to each other as if they are stranger"Good Hamlet" , "Ay, madam".hamlet is deeply affected by his father's death. Gertude wants him to stop mourning so dramatically--perhaps because it makes her feel a bit guilty. Queen Gertude tries to belittle Hamlet's grief by asking him to throw off his gloomy looks and to do not, with downcast eyes, keep looking all the time for his noble father who is dead and who lies buried in his grave. She reminded him ,as if the one who has died is not his father, that the death is a common occurrence in the human life and all those who have live must ultimately die. Hamlet replies is so significant, it appears that he is affected more by her quick marriage than his father death. hamlet tries to remind her by her natural role as a faithful wife. Hamlet feels that Gertrude has betrayed his father by marrying with his brother.Throughout the play, he is consumed with avenging his father’s death and all the mistreatment the former King had suffered and still suffers after his life is over. Gertrude adds to the dead King’s tarnished memory by not mourning and instead rejoicing in her new marriage. Hamlet is thus extremely angry with Gertrude and expresses this anger towards her directly and indirectly through his words, both to himself and to other characters.  His first attempt to make his mother feels guilty in an indirect way is to insert some lines in the play of "the murder of Genzago". These liens convoy the message that the woman who marries a second husband after

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