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A 2.5 page paper which examines how Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, is convicted of crimes for which she is guilty and is, in fact, nothing more than a pawn who is manipulated by the men in her life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: TG15_TGgertru.rtf
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of Denmark, mother of their college-aged son Prince Hamlet and the newly married wife of her former brother-in-law Claudius, Gertrude is never presented sympathetically throughout the text, and in fact
remains a rather mysterious figure that says little, and yet is convicted of crimes without ever receiving a fair trial. Unfortunately, Gertrude said little because women in the patriarchal
society of Denmark (and also Elizabethan England) were not supposed to speak unless they were spoken to by their male counterparts. Their existence was to serve men, as wives
and mothers. In the case of Gertrude, before her character ever makes an appearance, she is defamed by what purports to be the ghost of Prince Hamlets late father, who
brands her as an adulteress, saying, "Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, / With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- / O wicked wit and gifts, that have the
power / So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust / The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen. / O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, / From me, whose
love was of that dignity / That it went hand in hand even with the vow / I made to her in marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch
whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd, / Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, /
So lust, though to a radiant angel linkd, / Will sate itself in a celestial bed / And prey on garbage" (I.v.41-56). But despite these dramatic allegations,
neither the ghost nor anyone else produces any evidence to "indicate that the Queen committed adultery with Claudius before King Hamlet was murdered but does, in fact, suggest that the
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