Gertrude Flashcards
Claudius’ reason for not killing Hamlet
“She is so conjunctive to my life and soul”
She no longer recognises Hamlet
“my too much changed son”
Her maternal wishes in retrospect of Ophelia and Hamlet’s relationship
“i hop’d thou shouldst have been Hamlet’s wife”
Her maternal wishes in retrospect of Ophelia and Hamlet’s relationship
Player Queen: Represents her incestuous acts
Player Queen: “A second time I kill my husband dead, when second husband kisses me in bed”
Irony in that she sees the Player Queen as expressing too much devotion/loyalty to her husband
“the lady doth protest too much”
Gertrude’s love for OH
‘why, she would hang on him as if an increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on, and yet within a month - let me not think on’t …. married with my uncle.’
fast marriage
‘to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets.’
Claudius
‘whored my mother’
Obedience
‘I shall obey you’
