Gertrude

[andie nachgeborenen]

I don't see this anywhere in the text. Though there is
the question of what Hamlet does think she ought to
have done, as opposed to ought not to have done. I
actually don't think he cares about being king. He'd
rather be a student in Wittemberg. That IS in the
text. jks

--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> 
> >...it is unfair to suggest that she had good
> alternatives to 
> >marrying Claudius....
> 
> Of course she had an alternative, and her failure to
> adopt it is the unspoken subtext to Hamlet's
> hostility toward her.  She could, and in his view
> should,
> have proclaimed herself regent to ensure the
> legitimate succession--ie., Hamlet junior.  Instead
> she married the usurper, like Klytemnaestra, though
> without either the guilt of participation in the
> murder or the justification of revenge for
> Iphigenaia.
> 
> Shane Mage
> 
> "Thunderbolt steers all 
> things."                                            
>             
> 
> Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
> 
> 
> 

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