CHARACTERS: Gertrude Flashcards

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A woman of exuberant . . .

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A woman of exuberant sexuality, who inspires uxorious passion first in King Hamlet and later in Claudius.

  • Bloom (Gertrude’s promiscuity)
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Pleasing men is . . .

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Pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest.

  • Rebecca Smith
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Women are often . . .

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Women are often given the same advice that is given to servants . . . Chasity, piety and obedience.

  • Diana Bornstein (Advice given to women)
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Hamlet is a play about a . . .

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Hamlet is a play about a father and a son who were weak because they were undone . . . by sexually treacherous women.

  • Avi Ehrlich in 1977 (female sexuality)
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“Gertrude prompts . . .

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“Gertrude prompts violent physical and emotional reactions from the men in the story.”

  • Smith
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Gertrude’s “speeches include references to . . .

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Gertrude’s “speeches include references to humour, virtue, flowers, and a dove’s golden couplets; neither structure not content suggests wantonness.”

  • Smith
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By the end of the closet scene . . .

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By the end of the closet scene ‘Though Gertrude is still nominally the wife of Claudius, she is no longer physically or sexually in dyadic union with him. She has . . . consented to rejoin Hamlet in the paternal triangle, thus re-establishing the family configuration in its original form, prior to the intervention of Claudius.

  • John Russell 1995
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