Hamlet Essay Kit #6: The Relationship of Claudius and Gertrude (Hamlet Essay Kits) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

You have the rest of your life to appreciate Shakespeare’s Hamlet - but only a few hours to finish that essay!Ready and waiting for you in The Relationship of Claudius and Gertrude from the Hamlet Essay Kit series are:3 x 1,500-word full sample essays6 x easy-to-rewrite sections in each sample essay18 x combinations of sections to mix and match72 x supporting quotations from the playHere are some short samples from the three 1,500-word essays about the royal couple of Denmark:1 - INTRODUCTIONThe marriage of Claudius and Gertrude is strong enough to survive Hamlet’s resentment, Polonius’ stabbing, Ophelia’s apparent suicide and Laertes’ mob-leading, castle-storming insurrection. But it cannot escape a dark secret of murder that hides in the past. Hamlet’s role in relation to the royal couple is, in the prince’s own definition of drama, “to hold a mirror up to nature” (Act III-II).2 - THE WEDDING OF CLAUDIUS AND GERTRUDEThe “within a month” (Act I-II) marriage of Claudius and Gertrude furthered both partner’s practical interests; his political, hers social. He wanted something (the role of king) he did not have; she had something (the role of queen) she wanted to hold onto.3 - THE ROYAL COUPLE OF DENMARKThe royal relationship we see on stage between the couple Hamlet describes as his “"uncle-father and aunt-mother" (Act II-II) is far removed from the unrestrained sensuality which King Hamlet’s Ghost luridly imagines. It resembles more that of a middle-aged, married couple which, of course, Claudius and Gertrude actually are.4 - HAMLET: THE PROBLEM OF THE PRINCENeither king nor queen win Hamlet’s support for their marriage. In the prince’s words: “Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh” (Act VI-III); as long as she is joined in marriage to Claudius, Hamlet and Gertrude cannot be fully son and mother. Claudius’ approach to his new stepson evolves from fearful suspicion - “There’s something in his soul. O’er which his melancholy sits on brood” (Act III-I) - into murderous panic: “His liberty is full of threats to all” (Act IV-I).5 - “WHEN SORROWS COME...”Gertrude’s words at Ophelia’s funeral - “I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife … sweet maid”, Act V-I - reveal she can no reconcile her optimistic view of life and her hopes for her family’s future with all the calamities that have followed from her remarriage. Meanwhile, her husband discovers his exile of one revenge-seeking son to England is followed only by the return of another from France.6 - CONCLUSION: BETRAYAL AND REDEMPTIONThe royal marriage crumbles in a violent and truth-revealing bloodbath. Gertrude finally confronts the true nature of her husband, acts to protect her son (“O my dear Hamlet - The drink, the drink! I am poison’d”, Act V-II) and in doing so gains a measure of redemption. Claudius dies as he lived – a duplicitous and unrepentant villain.>>> With this book you’ll very quickly be expressing your own thoughts about Denmark's royal couple, in your own individual way personal writing style.The Relationship of Claudius and Gertrude is from the Hamlet Essay Kit series at www.essaykit.com - simply the most sanity-saving, grade-boosting and deadline-beating way of appreciating the greatness of Shakespeare’s greatest play.