Hamlet and his Mother

The relationship that Hamlet shared between Gertrude certainly plays a role and obvious effect in his insanity, and on the final outcome of the play. discusses the view of his mother’s behavior following his father’s death. Gertrude is weak because she fell to Claudius within a month. By having his relationship with Gertrude turn sour, he concluded his mother as possess and internal evil. Indeed, he even claims, “frailty, thy name is woman in reference to his description of his mother’s behavior. The mother he loved, causing the minds of Hamlet corrupted through his actions and behaviors. Hamlet is exposed to a false sense of womanhood from his mother.

In addition to his view that Gertrude is false, Hamlet also views his mother as weak. In essence, Hamlet is saying that Gertrude’s behavior with regard to his father was false because she abandoned his father’s memory so quickly. O most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets !

By making reference to the “wicked speed” of which Gertrude abandoned his father, Hamlet is really commenting on how quickly Claudius was able to court on her. He says:

“Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes

She married.

The relationship between Hamlet and his mother is portrayed as a negative presence in the play. Hamlet also makes constant reference to the speed at which Gertrude the memory of his father and married Claudius. He says

“Why, she would hang on him,

as if increase of appetite of had grown

By what if fed on/ and yet within a month”

This seems to suggest that the more Gertrude was with Hamlet’s father, the more her desire grew on him.