Hamlet Love Triangle
Is Hamlet just a twisted love triangle in some soap opera? In the course of the play Gertrude profusely creates sexual tension, which drives the men in her life to do monstrous things. Though she is only a sex object in the play she is of all their desires consciously or unconsciously. Her character has least amount of dialogue among the major characters she proves to be one of the most important. Some of the evidence first comes around with the introduction to Hamlet’s Father’s ghost. The Ghost describes vaguely the details of his murder and then goes into a vivid assault on Gertrude’s sexual relationship with Claudius, which he then pushes Hamlet to enact revenge on Claudius for taking his sex object, who causes him much rage and emotional anguish. “Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch of luxury and damned incest” (I.v.82-83), but he later on proclaims that Hamlet should not exact revenge on his mother but leave it to heaven. “The ghost expresses (to Gertrude) simultaneous rage, disgust, and protectiveness in his first appearance to Hamlet,”(Smith) which reinforces that the ghost still treats her as his own. In the second appearance of The Ghost he comes again in the heat of the moment with Gertrude and Hamlet after
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Approximate Word count = 1050
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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