Hamlet- Part 2 Culminating

Hamlet is a famous play about revenge and degradation. Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, has multiple identities and her passing is symbolized by willow trees. Hamlet goes through growth and self-realization, becoming a tragic hero. He is driven by revenge and ends up killing his love. Hamlet's character is complex and he may be intentionally portrayed as insane. The play also explores a feminist perspective, showing women as subordinate and limited. The relationship between Gertrude and Hamlet is strained. The play discusses friendship, madness, and revenge. We have all heard of the famous play Hamlet. Now not everyone knows exactly what it's about. While reading you learn about the revenge that Hamlet wants when he runs into his father's ghost and the degradation when Claudius killed his brother and then proceeded to marry his brother's wife. Now Gertrude has multiple identities, a few being Hamlet's mother, Queen of Denmark, and she was married to King Hamlet. There's a quote that makes you think about the sorrow and grief with the willow trees, meaning when it how it blows in the wind and it may being Othello's plant. Now, I think it best represents her and when she passed it reminds everyone of her. Now Hamlet has some growing up and self-realization that happens in the play. There are some parts where he seems to be a young child and then further on he seems to be grown into this young man. Now after he sees his father's ghost and the weird relationship with his uncle and mother, he takes on the role of the tragic hero. Why I think this is because near the end of the play there is no longer a way for him to be a hero and fix what has happened to his father. He ended up killing the love of his life in the process of killing his uncle and I think Hamlet has a sort of insaneness in the play. He's all over the place and is kind of crazy. Now, this may be intentional and there is a purpose to this but it gives him a trickster point of view. Now, even with his trickster point of view, it doesn't stop him from being killed in the end and it puts a very interesting point of view in the story. With a feminist perspective of Hamlet is very well seen. It has a perspective as what our grandparents may have had. The women are to be in love and are only there to look pretty when needed and do the chores around the house. This is seen when the women are instructed around by the men. It is not a question of can you do this or the other it is an order. The women seem to always be asking questions and asking permission to do anything. Like in the example saying she prays for him and he says he never gave her that permission. Gertrude the Queen and her relationship with Hamlet seem to be on the edge. Hamlet's relationship with his mother is not to see the normal relationship and it seems to be he seems to be upset at the fact that his mother's soon after the death of his father married his uncle and the connection that may or may not have been there with Gertrude and the death of the king. There's another quote and that's an example seems to mean that women can't do much of anything and things they do are incapable of doing on their own. Makes it seem like she like they didn't matter and when it says she was native maybe meaning not supposed to be on this planet, but overall it is a play that talks about friendship madness and revenge.