How Did Gertrude Decide To Get Married To Walter Morel's Wife

Chelsa relationship with her father is distant, as she feels ashamed that she was not born a boy. She does accept her father’s critism, but desperately hopes for her father’s approval. Physically Chelsa is in good health, mentally she cannot get rid of the past of her mal nurture childhood. Cognitively Chelsa learns to lover her dad as Norman loves the boy. Psychologically Chelsa did not receive support during childhood, so she avoided close personal relationships. This can be referred to Erikson’s theory that “Adults problems echo their childhood conflicts”. (Invitation to the Life span, pg. 25) The way she dropped the boy off and went off to marry without her parent’s consent can be a reflection of not having a close relationship with her father. She revels to be emotional when she sees how her dad treats Billy with

Illegitimate child, Jewel has a different father than the rest of his siblings and Darl believes that “[he] cannot love [his] mother because [he has] no mother. Jewel’s mother is a horse” (Faulkner 95). Both Darl and Jewel have the same mother, but because Addie cheated and Darl is full of anger, he blames Jewel, the product of the affair. Not only does this worsen their relationship, but it makes it difficult for them to properly grieve. Faulkner defends the idea that placing blame on others within your family will only complicate situations more and restrict the ability for connections to flourish. While Dewey Dell, the only daughter, does not blame Darl for knowing about her pregnancy, but she does despise him for having knowledge of it and once said she had thoughts where “[she] killed Darl” (Faulkner 121). Struggling to feel a sense of belonging, Dewey Dell looks for anyone to be the victim of her anger and embarrassment. She resents her brother and breaks a possible alliance with him; meanwhile, Faulkner uses this situation to point out that one must take responsibility when one does something wrong in order for love to shine through the tough moments in life.

In addition, Gertrude goes through a moment where she is figuratively blind when making a judgment. When Hamlet told her about how King Hamlet was killed she didn’t believe it. He says she has been blind this whole time to it and even though Claudius appears innocent he is not. Gertrude married soon after King Hamlet’s death because her love and loneliness blinded her. This led to her to make incestuous actions. Hamlet is annoyed with his mother and how naive she is to his father’s death:

Many morals are examined in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and perhaps the character with the most questionable morals is Queen Gertrude, specifically when it comes to loyalty. Her loyalty is brought into question through her almost immediate remarriage, her lack of mourning for her husband, and her swift, intense support for Claudius. Queen Gertrude was married to King Hamlet for a substantial amount of time, based on the fact that their son is old enough to be in university, and yet she remarried in less than two months. Hamlet even jokes that, “ The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables,” (I,ii: 179-180). Gertrude was able to come out of a lasting marriage and almost instantly start

On the contrary, Gertrude’s sanity never really becomes a subject of question by any character within the story, but one cannot believe she maintains a healthy state of mind if she considered marrying her husband’s brother. It does not help her case that Claudius killed her husband. She loves him undyingly in a way only a mad person could. Hamlet wonders how on earth she would willingly marry her husband’s brother only two months after his death. “A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father 's body Like Niobe, all tears; — why she, even she, (O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn 'd longer!) married with mine uncle, My father 's brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled

Throughout “Hamlet,” woman’s place within the domestic sphere is carefully established through the relationship, and marriage, of Claudius and Gertrude. Gertrude, from the beginning when she marries Claudius immediately after Ole King Hamlet’s death, seems to need men in order to establish her own sense of self. Despite the fact that Gertrude seems to manage all right on her own, especially when put in a position that involves societal expectation (i.e. when beside Claudius as the Queen), she seems to still be unable to define her own sense of self. For instance, in Act I, Scene II, Gertrude makes a short comment about Hamlet’s travels, stating, “Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet, I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.” While Hamlet also replies curtly, Claudius takes this instance to go into an eight-line speech regarding how “loving and fair” Gertrude’s response to Hamlet was; as if she needed immediate validation. Claudius, in this instance as well as throughout the overarching story-line, seems to jump to the occasion to speak for both himself and Gertrude; asserting himself as the “man in charge.” However, the one thing Gertrude does seem to be able to maintain is her ability to have her own thoughts and control over her own actions. While she does rely on the main male characters,

In Act I, Gertrude’s motivations and sense of morality are first revealed. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy, it is revealed that King Hamlet has been dead for, “But two months…” (I.ii.142), yet Gertrude has already wed Claudius, something Hamlet is deeply offended by, as Claudius is, “My father’s brother, but no more like my father/ Than I to Hercules” (I.ii.156-157). Although Hamlet is deeply offended that Gertrude married Claudius soon after King Hamlet’s death, she had to if she wanted to be in good standing in her society. Gertrude’s marriage is perceived as an act of solidarity and strength to the people of Denmark, so even though Hamlet is offended by it, her marriage was not unusual for the time. It would have been more unseemly for her to

Gertrude also portrays Marxism. She does not delay long after her former husband’s death to “marry

To marry Claudius so soon after his passing, and lie about the vows she had read to Claudius at the wedding. Hamlet might have been thinking in this situation: how can one person read vows to her son’s father, and then go off and say the same vows to her husband’s brother? The man who also happened to be her brother in-law. As Gertrude was made to look in a mirror at herself, in act 3 scene 4,

Queen Gertrude is the mother to Hamlet, widow to the late King, and new wife to King Claudius as shown within the first act of Hamlet. Following her marriage to King Claudius, her relationship with her son Hamlet becomes strained. Queen Gertrude symbolizes much of what is considered to be a negative aspect of womanhood. To Hamlet, Queen Gertrude is a failure of a woman. Through his dialogue, it is presented that Hamlet desires a woman and mother to be concerned for her family and place tradition above all else. When Hamlet’s mother makes a decision outside of that realm and marries King Claudius, Hamlet strives to berate her for her choices. Through

The qualities Gertrude draws from Hamlet, however, lead her more towards destruction than love in her marriage. Hamlet's characteristics which she adopts - a timidity and weakness - allow her to be not merely corrupted by Claudius, but clearly also controlled. While she undoubtedly shared in a level of mutual love with Hamlet's father

Gertrude Morel was a strong woman and mother but stubborn with her children in a way that she would want them to only look to her and not to walter, no matter what the situation was. Throughout the novel Gertrude ruins three lives, that of her her husbands, and her two eldest sons. Her husband Walter was not the best man for her but he did try to be a father to his children, but his wife made it almost impossible for him to do so. He is ostracized from the family throughout the novel, his life is ruined because Gertrude made him loose the only family he had before he had a chance of being a part of it. Her eldest son and first born child William, is so fixated on his mothers approval that he learns to hate the woman that he will be married to, that marriage would become like his parents. In that way Williams life is ruined by his own mother. Her third child and second son

Before we make any conclusion regarding the character of Gertrude, we should understand the norms of the society in which she lives in. Established order of the society is maintained through the process of socialization. Petriarchy power structure of 16th century is well represented in Hamlet and judged as a mysterious character. Gertrude in Hamlet holds the political power within the traditional power structure and also has potentially has the power to collapse within that structure. Gertrude fails to represent the moral of society as a queen of the state by marrying Claudius, but she completely believes in the standards set for women by the society. She appreciates qualities like-youth, beauty and purity- in Ophelia:

Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Hamlet is described by a wide margin as very complex and appealing. Appealing facets of the characters are that many of them are flawed. However, Shakespeare developed these characters to grow dramatically or insignificantly throughout the course of the novel. Gertrude is a character that grows insignificantly throughout the novel. Gertrude’s sudden decision to marry, her maternal care toward her son, and ignoring her son Hamlet leads to her downfall. Gertrude’s failure to realize her maternal flaws causes great upset to Hamlet and affects Hamlet’s character.

Lawrence portrays Mrs Morel's turning to her children particularly to Paul as an exceptionally unpredictable and uncommon procedure. Lawrence alongside portraying the unpredictable and abnormal connection also finds numerous unusual factors behind this bizarre connection. Among all the factors, the most well-known one is Mrs. Morel's moving her fascination or desire from spouse to child which was the result of the bizarre relation or mismatch between her spouse in regards to character, family status, training, keenness and so on. While she is an exceedingly religious lady, her spouse is hard lush, her refined way additionally negates with his profanity. The marriage life of Mrs. Morel is actually loaded with clashes and disappointments. "Their marriage life has been one carnal bloody fight."(Lawrence, D.H. 1985) Along with the mental tormenting Mr. Morel also frequently beats her seriously and puts her out of home. "The mother is unsatisfied and angry with the coal miner, because he not only fails to live up to her bourgeois idea, but also hurts her in body and mind" (Lawrence, D.H. 1985). All these stinging and anguishing certainties ultimately make her substitute or to move enthusiastically towards her child to discover a bit fulfillment into the world