On tonight's episode of Denmark 90210, the tension between Hamlet and his mother, Gertrude, finally erupts in a heated discussion on the marriage between Gertrude and Hamlet's recently deceased father's brother, Claudius. Hamlet refers to the marriage as incestuous and runs to his girlfriend, Ophelia, in an attempt to convince himself that not all women are as corrupt as his mother. His attempts fail as he finds that her emotions toward him are ever-changing and never constant. Hamlet's feelings and view towards women is first shown in his soliloquy following his conversation with King Claudius and Gertrude in Act I, Scene II. In the soliloquy, Hamlet addresses his feelings toward his mother's marriage immediately following his father's death. In the soliloquy he says:
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-
Let me not think on't. Frailty, thy name is woman!-
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears-why she, even she-
O God! A beast, that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer-married with my uncle;
My father's brother, but no more like my father"m — (1.2.143-152)
Hamlet feels that his mother has abandoned the memory of his father less than a month after his death to marry his brother, Claudius and that the tears she shed in mourning are unrighteous now. Hamlet regards the speed at which she married to be evidence of her weakness. Hamlet goes to Ophelia in an attempt to convince himself that not all women are as false and weak as his mother. He goes to her in a state of distress only to be pushed away, as she has been instructed by her father to shun him. Hamlet is further convinced that Ophelia is like his mother, weak and her emotions toward him are unstable. In another conversation with Ophelia that is being overheard by Claudius and Polonius, he says to Ophelia that "God ha
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