Hamlet and his mother .
In Shakespeare's play of Hamlet, we are under the impression that Hamlet is emotionally suffering with his troubled relationship with his mother, Gertrude. His relationship with Gertrude clearly inhibits him at various points in the play, and exhibits a variety of emotions. This is evidenced by, among other things his false sense of womanhood in the play. Hamlet views his mother as both weak and false, as a consequence, other aspect of Hamlet's psychology are affected, namely his inability to act on his father's death.
Hamlet's view of his mother is first presented in his soliloquy immediately following his conservation with Claudius and Gertrude. In the scene, Hamlet discusses the view of his mother's behavior following his father's death. He says .
"Why, she would hang on him,.
as if increase of appetite of had grown.
By what if fed on/ and yet within a month" .
This seems to suggest that the more Gertrude was with Hamlet's father, the more her desire grew on him. In essence, Hamlet is saying that Gertrude's behavior with regard to his father was false because she abandoned his father's memory so quickly.
In addition to his view that Gertrude is false, Hamlet also views his mother as weak. Indeed, he even claims, "frailty, thy name is woman in reference to his description of his mother's behavior. Hamlet also makes constant reference to the speed at which Gertrude the memory of his father and married Claudius. He says: .
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"Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears.
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes.
She married. O most wicked speed, to post.
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets !.
By making reference to the "wicked speed" of which Gertrude abandoned his father, Hamlet is really commenting on how quickly Claudius was able to court on her. Gertrude is weak because she fell to Claudius within a month.