Prince Hamlet's Turmoil
Hamlet is but a mere distraught son of murdered king and the queen of Denmark whom has been filled with the turmoil brought upon him by the appearance of his late father's ghost in the Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. His obsession and continued disturbance by the thoughts of his mother having entered a hasty marriage with his father's own murderer leaves him in a state of pure agony and distress in which he, throughout the play, let's lead him to his final destiny, his own dramatic and, by no better definition than that used to describe his mother's marriage, hasty death. In the passage during Act III in scene iv, we finally hear, in Hamlet's own pained words, what sins he feels his mother has committed. "Such an act/ that blurs the grace and blush of modesty", Hamlet begins his thoughts (Riverside, pp 1215). It is clear that by just the first three words that Hamlet feels that his mother Gertrude has done something deceitful. The "act" in which Hamlet describes is never truly spelled out to the audience/reader. Yet, we can decipher, just from the first three words, that he feels disgusted by this act. Hamlet's anger and disgust is so intense
The Oxford English Dictionary describes cozened to mean "beguile or cheat into, up, etc; to induce by deception to do a thing" in its' third definition. This doom is the one that the queen has made for herself. Hamlet is as if saying to his mother, "What has Claudius given you for you so that has caused you to so hastily marry him and make him the king of our Denmark? How could you have entered such a marriage? This is against the law of God, whose laws we are supposed to abide by! Are you so blinded by Claudius and his evil plans to become ruler of Denmark to the point that you cannot see the destruction that you are causing to our family, our reputation and our people?"This is obvious when Hamlet asks his mother in act III, scene iv "What devil was't/ That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind" (lines 77-78). Next in his speech is a point that is of ultimate importance. Lives changed by acts blinded by lies and deception. Hamlet says that the blister, or shame, that his mother, the queen of Denmark, has brought upon the family and their land "makes marriage vows as false as dicers' oaths" (Riverside, Act III. These oaths are quickly made, without long term thought put into the notion of the outcome, and quickly can turn sour, just a hand of poker can go quickly wrong to someone whom is playing for the first time. Gertrude made a fool of God's religious words and she turned her back on her belief in her religion. The religion, the heavens and, most importantly, God have been denied loyalty and this loyalty of the laws set before the people of Denmark, and the world, was broken by the queen herself. Possibly what Shakespeare could have been trying to play upon was the word contraction. Now, that warmth of a life of health and youth is being taken over by the doom. He is amazed and disturbed by her actions to marry his uncle Claudius and therefore he questions her while at the same time accusing her of adultery. Hamlet: Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths,. In the tragedy of Hamlet, Hamlet wants to question his mother.
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