Hamlet - Comparing the Dissimilar Characters of Gertrude and Ophelia Es

Hamlet -- the Dissimilar Characters of Gertrude and Ophelia In Shakespeares tragedy Hamlet it is frequently less challenging to illustrate the lack of resemblance between Gertrude and Ophelia than it is to request the similarities between the two ladies. The biggest difference between the two is the moral difference. Who pot deny that the business leader has done some very serious sinning? Who hobo deny that Ophelia is a shy, obedient, innocent daughter? Lilly B. Campbell comments in sadness That Leads to Tragedy on Queen Gertrudes sinful state Shakespeares picture of the Queen is explained to us by Hamlets talking to to her in her closet. There we see again the picture of sin as evil willed by a reason perverted by passion, for so much Hamlet explains in his accusation of his mother You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, its humble, And waits upon the judgement and what judgement Would tone of voice from this to this? . . . O shame Where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thous canst mutine in a matrons bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as heighten And melt in her own fire. Proclaim no shame When the positive ardor gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn And reason panders will. And of the Queens punishment as it goes on throughout the play, there can be no doubt either. Her love for Hamlet, her grief, the woes that come so unfluctuating that one treads upon the heel of another, her consciousness of wrong-doing, her final dismay are those as well of one whose soul has become alienated from God by sin. (97-98) quite an opposite the criminality of the kings wife is the innocence of Ophelia, a broken lil... ...aghs Hamlet. Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (May, 2000) 2.1-24 <URL http//purl.oclc.org/emls/06-1/lehmhaml.htm>. ODonnell, Jessie F. Ophelia. The American Shakespeare Magazine, 3 (March 1897), 70-76. Rpt. in Women Reading Shakespeare 1660-1900. Ed. Ann Thompson and Sas ha Roberts. New York Manchester University Press, 1997. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Massachusetts prove of Technology. 1995. http//www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/hamlet/full.html No line nos. West, Rebecca. A Court and World infected by the Disease of Corruption. Readings on Hamlet. Ed. Don Nardo. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1999. Rpt. of The Court and the Castle. New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 1957. Wilson, John Dover. What Happens in Hamlet. New York Cambridge University Press, 1999.