What Was Gertrude Thinking?

What was Gertrude thinking? Did she tell apart Old settlement?
Or was she in love with Claudius?
This paper shall look at the differences between Shakespeares Gertrude in settlement and Sir Laurence Oliviers version of Gertrude. Her actions, her tone, and her clothing carry a different charr in a similitude of the text and the film.
To begin with Gertrude in the text is a sweet woman who I feel is sad, but doing what she feels is right for Denmark, by marrying Claudius shortly after the untimely devastation of her husband, Old Hamlet one month prior to this. Where as in the scene she tries to look contrite but you can see the love and admiration in her eyes when she looks upon Claudius. The bloom in her cheeks gives her an well-nigh youthful appearance in the film. This can be seen when she beseeches Hamlet to stay and not return to Wittenberg. Let not thy submit forth lose her prayers, Hamlet. / I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. (1.2.118-119) Gertrude says the same lines in the text but she is not parroting what Claudius says. She is unfeignedly concerned about Hamlet, believing that his fathers death is the only cause of his melancholy. This continues when she and Claudius are speaking with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Thanks, Guildenstern and Gentle Rosencrantz.



/And I beseech you instantly to visit/ My too changed son. Go, some of you, / And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is (2.2.34-37). This shows that Shakespeare portrayed Gertrude in a different well-fixed from Oliviers interpretation of this woman, because this only happens in the text. In Oliviers film this scene is removed completely.
Secondly, Gertrude is shown as a woman gay and happy in the film. She dresses in light colours. I dont know whether in Elizabethan propagation the colour of ones clothing played into the wail period. But I would have pictured Gertrude in soundless and dower colours even if she was to have remarried so soon. I also realize that Oliviers version it was shot in black...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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