Hamlet - Comparing the Dissimilar Characters of Gertrude and Ophelia Es

juncture -- the Dissimilar Characters of Gertrude and Ophelia In Shakespeares tr senescedy Hamlet it is much less(prenominal) challenging to illustrate the lack of resemblance surrounded by Gertrude and Ophelia than it is to indicate the similarities between the two ladies. The biggest difference between the two is the moral difference. Who bed recall that the Queen has d sensation some very serious sinning? Who can deny that Ophelia is a shy, obedient, innocent daughter? Lilly B. Campbell comments in Grief That Leads to calamity on Queen Gertrudes sinful state Shakespeares learn of the Queen is explained to us by Hamlets speech 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 step from this to this? . . . O sham e Where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, If thous canst mutine in a matrons b one and only(a)s, To crashing(a) youth let virtue be as wax And commingle in her own fire. Proclaim no shame When the compulsive transport 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 fast that one treads upon the heel of another, her consciousness of wrong-doing, her final dismay are those also of one whose soul has become alienated from God by sin. (97-98) Quite setback the criminality of the kings wife is the innocence of Ophelia, a impoverished 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 Th ompson and Sasha Roberts. New York Manchester University Press, 1997. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1995. http//www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/ village/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, bath Dover. What Happens in Hamlet. New York Cambridge University Press, 1999.