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This 4 page paper discusses the issue of incest as described in Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Correlation to modern theories on incest offered. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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that an overwhelming percentage of those currently residing in a criminal facility were abused sexually as children. Other statistics indicate that those who go on to attempt to lead normal
lives generally choose mates who abuse them. As one can see, it is a wound that never heals. This is not a new phenomenon. Shakespeare, himself, indicated the types of
psychological wounds that incest can have on a person in his play, Hamlet. Gertrudes character, one must suspect, is full of complexity though many would
disagree. And again, Hamlet speaks of incest and how he hates the fact that she has remarried Claudius: "She married-- O most wicked speed: to post With such dexterity
to incestious sheets, It is not, nor can it come to good, But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue" (Act 1.2.150-159). She
is not just a vacuous queen, concerned with a retention of power, but a fully three-dimensional woman, who has had a background in being treated badly by men, and viewed
as an object to them. Even Claudius, whom she aligns herself with, is only using her to gain the throne and to wrestle it from Hamlets grasp. That she has
poisoned herself at the end is of little consequence to Claudius. But of notable significance is the continued interaction between Hamlet and Gertrude. There
is an unnaturalness between the mother and son. This is particularly driven home in the third Act, scene four when Hamlet confronts his mother in regard to her marriage to
Claudius. He hopes to convince her that Claudius is unworthy and to regain his lost status in her eyes. The tension between them is charged, indicating more than a mere
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