acknowledge the fact that the murder of his father has taken place and that his mother acts as if nothing has happened and even weds the villain. I truly believe that Gertrude may not have been apart of the killing of her late husband Hamlet Sr. but she seems like the type of female who has no opinion or say so of her own. During the scene where Hamlet and Laertes fight in Ophelia’s grave, death is the charge to show who loved Ophelia the most. Instead of stopping the fight and telling Hamlet to regain his senses and that Laertes is Ophelia’s brother she stands there and does nothing. I believe that Gertrude was a poor excuse for a mother in this play, because she made everything center around her new king instead of her own child. Hamlet say’s:I have heard of your paintings too well enough God has given you one face and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname Gods creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go do, I’ll no more on’t; it hath made me mad. I say we will have no more marriages; those that are married already all but one shall live: the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery go.” Act three scene one to OpheliaThe above statement begins the first reflection of how Hamlet feels about women. He says that God gives women one face, but women play with another. They betray people, lie and commit sins (incestuous). He says that no one should ever be married for their marriage will be based on lies, without truth and without pure genuine love. Hamlet begins to show what he thinks of women by suggesting that they should all belong to nunneries (in this case a nunnery is said to be a whore house).Hamlets attitude towards women begins to rise through the play and begins in act three scene one where he tells Ophelia that he never loved her, and that she should get thee to a nunnery and never be a breeder of sinners. He suggests that all w...
