With Gertrude, Hamlet would also like to express his anger towards her, as well as possibly kill her or make her go insane, without arising suspicion in others that he possesses a hostile rational mental state. ... One means of achieving it would be for Hamlet to kill his mother or make her go insane, which he has the license to do thanks to his feigned insanity. ... Also, he needs his mother's love much more than he needs Ophelia's love. ... (The evidence for this arbitrary reliance on his mother's love comes from his father and Claudius both professing of their powerful need f...

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Hamlet himself exists within an environment of misogyny, fueled by this father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the suspicious behavior of his lady Ophelia. Early in the play, we learn that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father - and then remarried his mother far too quickly. For Hamlet, and for the audience, his mother's behavior is coldly disconcerting; she shows no loyalty to her dead husb...

• Word Count: 2278
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate