Hamlets Real Mother
Hamlet’s Real Mother The most important transformation that takes place in the relationship between Hamlet and his mother is the death of King Hamlet. From this point on, Gertrude acts as a vehicle through which the men in the play are able to act as Hamlet’s mother. ... This persuasive manner in which Claudius and Polonius influence Gertrude’s actions shed light on the idea that they, and not the Queen, are becoming the mother figure to Hamlet. ... But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived” (II. ... The use of the term “aunt-mother” suggests Hamlet is beginning to see Gertrude as less of a true mother figure than he did when his father was alive. ... The erosion of the relationship between Hamlet and his mother is progressed in what can arguably be seen as their most important scene. Hamlet is called to his mother’s chamber, and the reader finally thinks that he will be able to speak with Gertrude alone. ... When Gertrude asks her son what she has done wrong, Hamlet furiously responds by telling his mother that her actions, “Blur the grace and blush of modesty, call virtue hypocrite, take off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love, and set a blister there, making marriage vows as false as dicer’ oaths. ... If we see Gertrude acting as a vehicle through which the egocentric desires of the men around her are expressed, then perhaps the anger of Hamlet’s response is directed not toward his mother, but toward the men whose desires she expresses. ... This notion is further expressed when Hamlet suggests that Gertrude may have had something to do with the murder of his father: “A bloody deed – almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king” (III. ... Once more, the reader is presented with the idea of Gertrude acting not as Hamlet’s mother, but as a vehicle for the vicious desires of Claudius and Polonius.