Modern Folklore Suggests Women Look At A Man’s Relationship With His Mother To P

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Term Paper Title	Modern Folklore Suggests Women Look At A Man’s Relationship With His Mother To P
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Modern folklore suggests women look at a man’s relationship with his mother to predict
how they will treat other women in their life.   Hamlet is a good example of a son’s
treatment of his mother reflecting how he will treat the woman he loves because when
considering Hamlet’s attitude and treatment of the Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s
play, Hamlet, one must first consider how Hamlet treated his mother.  A characteristic of
Hamlet’s personality is to make broad, sweeping generalizations and nowhere is this
more evident than in his treatment toward women.  Very early in the play, while
discussing his mother’s transgressions, he comments, “Frailty, thy name is woman. (Hoy,
11).”  Hamlet appears to believe all women act in the same manner as his mother.
     The first time the audience meets Hamlet, he is angry and upset at Queen
Gertrude, his mother, for remarrying his uncle so soon after the death of his father.  In his
first soliloquy he comments on the speed of her remarriage

                         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!
          It is not, nor it cannot come to good.  (Hoy, 11)

It is understandable Hamlet is upset with his mother for forgetting about his father and
marrying his uncle, Claudius.  In Hamlet’s eyes, his father deserves more than one month
of mourning and by remarrying so quickly, the queen has sullied King Hamlet’s memory.
This remarriage is a sin and illegal, however special dispensation was made because she
is queen.
     Hamlet’s opinion of his mother worsens as the play progresses because his father,
who appears as a ghost, tells him of his mother’s adulterous behavior and his uncle’s
shrewd and unconscionable murder.  Although Hamlet promises to seek revenge on King
Claudius for murdering his father, he is initially more concerned with the ghost’s
revelations regarding his mother.  King Hamlet tells Hamlet not to be concerned with his
mother but after the apparition leaves, it is the first thing Hamlet speaks of.  Before
vowing to avenge his father’s death, he comments on the sins his mother committed.
     Although Hamlet decides to pretend to be insane in order to plot against the King,
it is clear, he really does go mad.  His madness seems to amplify his anger toward his
mother.  During the play scene, he openly embarrasses her and acted terribly toward her
in the closet scene.  The close...

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