Shakespeare uses the timing of Claudius' abrupt immoral marriage to Gertrude to create corruption within Hamlet. ... Hamlet extends his disgust at the timing of his mother's marriage by comparing her to "a beast" and negating Gertrude's initial grief as "unrighteous tears." Shakespeare uses juxtaposition to contrast Hamlet's feelings of disgust and inadequacy with Gertrude's sudden happiness and love with marriage, which critic Newell describes as "a counterpointing between things divine and things earthly profane." Shakespeare's use ...

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First link to the allusion come into view in the first soliloquy of Hamlet, when he compares his father, former king of Denmark – Hamlet, and latter king – Claudius: " So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother" Hyperion in Greek mythology is a Titan, one out of 12 children of the gods of earth – Gaia and heaven – Uranus. ... The huge contrast between the two depicts the contradictory personalities of King Hamlet, and King Claudius. ... In the same soliloquy, Hamlet addresses to his mother – Gertrude, who became ...

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