Examples Of Incest In Hamlet

In the play Hamlet, incest is an obvious part of two of the main characters lives. Gertrude and Claudius are involved in a relationship that some would describe as inappropriate. Gertrude’s husband had

His amazing father, the incredible person he looked up to, has been horribly murdered in a peculiar way by another family member, his uncle. It is disgusting and revolting that his horrid uncle soon goes off to marry Hamlet's sad mother because they are simply "in love." No one knows whether or not Hamlet's mother actually married Hamlet's disgusting uncle for love or not. There was suspicion that Hamlet's beautiful mother either married his uncle because there was an affair going on or because she helped Hamlet's evil uncle kill her late husband. It was all suspicious, but the amazing readers soon found out this was not the case.

Laertes and Ophelia, like Hamlet, are children of murdered fathers. This connection helps create a link between the three that sends them passionately to their end.

Outraged by her decisions, Hamlet resorts to verbally assaulting his mother, telling her that the marriage between her and King Claudius is unjust. Hamlet’s disgust with his mother marrying his own uncle is shown when he screams at her in her room, “She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”(Shakespeare 2017). This scolding displays how Hamlet will say anything and everything that he feels without hesitation.

In Shakespeare’s time, this marriage would be frowned upon which is why Hamlet feels disgust towards his mother being guilty of it. He also can’t believe how his mother claimed to love his father yet “betrayed” Old King Hamlet (or at least that’s what Hamlet sees it as – betrayal) by marrying his brother. The marriage is what made Hamlet and his mother start having a rocky relationship. Although Hamlet didn’t participate in the wedding and wasn’t okay with it, he didn’t hate his mother but was just very disappointed in her decision of marrying his uncle.

A powerful word to describe the Hamlet family is very dysfunctional. Family dysfunction rules out there hope of trusting one another and depending on the family to even be a family. In the book “Hamlet” as you read through the pages, you will begin to see that. The whole family will rarely sit with each other and just enjoy the presence of their company without being suspicious of some accusation that just happens to be brought up, it's as if to call it a big family dysfunction.

The theme, family, in The Tragedy of Hamlet is major theme with lots of major points. This play is notorious for how it dwells on the issue of incest. In Shakespeare’s time, incest was a sin against God and the state. Queen Elizabeth I asked the Church of England to come up with a list of rules about marriage, basically a list of relatives who couldn’t marry, including in-laws. Also another focus is how politics can impact the dynamics of family. The values brought on by a parent are vital in developing a characters values and sense of purpose.

When Hamlets father speaks to him and tells him to speak to his mother, Hamlet immediately obeys him. He respects his father and loves him enough to listen to him and stop fighting with his mother. It shows that no matter the flaws he has with his mother he would throw them out just to please his father. Hamlet has proven himself in many ways that he would do anything for his father no matter what the circumstance was.

“A little more than kin, and less than kind” (1.2. 65) and refers to their marriage as incest “She married – O most wicked speed! To post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It Is not, nor it cannot come to good.” (1.2 156-159). Hamlet feels that his mother has betrayed his father by marrying with his brother. Even though his mother had to play a significant part within the marriage, Hamlet’s main sense of anger is towards Claudius. Not to mention, they also got married not much longer than two months after King Hamlet was killed, which sparked more range within Hamlet. Claudius is also very cruel towards Hamlet and does not treat him as equal, even though he tries to act like it. Hamlet was mourning the death of his father and his own mother tells him to get over it, it seems as though Claudius’ attitude has gotten to Gerturde “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die…” (1.2.68-72). He is loyal to his father and wants to avenge his death; therefore, he wants to seek revenge on Claudius. This ambition leads to the downfall of Hamlet’s sane mind.

     Hamlet is not just upset at his mother’s marriage because of its incestuous sate, but also because of the type of man Claudius is. In the soliloquy hamlet says that though Claudius is the brother of king Hamlet, it is clear to him that no similarities between them. Hamlet compares his uncle to a satyr while his father he describes as a Hyperion, the sun god, a model of beauty. At this point, Hamlet has worked himself up so much that is no long just his mother he is troubled with. Hamlet is troubled by the whole species of women, which is very evident when he says, “Let me not think on’t; fraility, they name is woman” (I.ii.146).

Throughout the play, Hamlet’s disdain for his mother marriage to his uncle, Claudius, is made apparent. It is because of this union, Hamlet believes that it is his responsibility to separate Claudius from his mother for her own good. Because Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, was killed his brother, Claudius, is now King and has married Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother. After a play which depicts the death of King

Incest flows abundantly through this play like no other. The relationship between Claudius and Gertrude could be considered incest from Hamlet’s perspective even though they are not blood related. He sees his blood uncle and his blood mother together which tortured his conscience. Why did the thought of his mother having sex deter him so bad? Did Hamlet want to look to his mother for sexual comfort? Hamlet was said to have ‘Oedipus Complex’ which is explained as every sons supposed desire to kill his father and have sex with his mother. Whether this is the case is unsure the reason for him to be

She married. “O, most wicked speed, / to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! / It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue” (i.ii. Lines 161-164 Shakespeare). Hamlet greatly disapproves of his mother and uncles positive attitudes towards his beloved father’s death. Hamlet is outraged that “but two months dead—nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr. / So loving to my mother” (i.ii. Lines 142-144 Shakespeare).The hasty marriage between Claudius and Gertrude hurts Hamlet deeply and is only one of many things that Hamlet must battle between his thoughts and his instincts. Part of the reason Hamlet is so melancholy is his mother's marriage and throughout the play he is forced to deal with the feelings that have arisen from the conflict he is in. In a way, confronting his mother provides Hamlet with a way to vent his anger and let loose some of the rage he has held in. The conflict that he had with Gertrude and Claudius is mainly projected upon Gertrude because Hamlet is more focused on dealing with murdering Claudius to avenge his father than he is angry and disgusted by Claudius’ incest marriage he is in with

Hamlet has many problems dealing with the fact that his mother married his uncle less than two months after the death of his father. Hamlet sees his mother's remarriage as disgusting and sees murdering Claudius as a way of freeing his mother of an incestuous marriage as well as avenging his father. Hamlet and his mother's relationship is also shown as more sexual than the traditional mother son relationship because of Hamlet's long and private conversation with his mother, as well as his rivalry toward Claudius for his mother's attentions. Hamlet makes numerous sexually allusions. The "closet scene" in Act 3 Scene 4, proves to be essential in understanding Hamlet's and Gertrude's relationship because the

In Act 1 Scene 2 lines 1.2.161-2, hamlet says the following: “O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”. In these lines, Hamlet feels as if his mother Gertrude has left their late father to quick as Gertrude married Claudius only around a month after their father’s death, and he feels it is incest. At this point in the play, Hamlet is feeling so much pain he wants to start school again in France, but Hamlet and his mother don’t eye to now and she thinks it would be better for him to stay in Denmark.