![]() He sees their actions as betrayal due to their fragility and watches both die as a result of their own misjudgments. Those characteristics are inherent in the character of women. To his mind women represent frailty – they are weak, breakable and delicate in nature. The two women closest to him have disappointed him. When, referring to his mother, he says “frailty thy name is woman” he is foreshadowing his perception of Ophelia who appears to be on Claudius’ side, and is thus another betrayal by another woman. He sees her as morally weak because she has betrayed her husband by marrying his brother, Claudius, just one month after her husband’s death. When Hamlet says “woman,” he means Gertrude. thy name is woman’ Who is the woman in ‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ quote? With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!īut break, my heart for I must hold my tongue. Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, My father’s brother, but no more like my fatherĮre yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Would have mourn’d longer–married with my uncle, O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Like Niobe, all tears:–why she, even she– With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, ![]() Let me not think on’t– Frailty, thy name is woman!Ī little month, or ere those shoes were old Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,īy what it fed on: and yet, within a month– That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Hyperion to a satyr so loving to my mother That it should come to this!īut two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: That grows to seed things rank and gross in nature His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!įie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, O, that this too too solid flesh would melt We now get the first insight into hamlet’s state of mind. He is very depressed, and angry that his mother has married his uncle so soon after his father’s death. When all the characters have left the room Hamlet shows the audience how he is feeling. Hamlet is dressed in black as he is in mourning for his father, and both his mother and Claudius implore him to lighten up and not take his mourning too far. Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, is seated beside him on the throne. He has somehow jumped in and taken the throne which should have been Hamlet’s. The play opens with the suave, smooth, charismatic Claudius, now King of Denmark, addressing the court. Hamlet has returned to Denmark from his studies in Germany because his father has died and, intending to comfort his mother, he finds that she has married her husband’s younger brother Claudius. Apart from the fact that Hamlet has never liked and trusted Claudius, he is devastated that she has remarried, to Claudius in particular, and so soon after her husband’s death. ![]() It is the first soliloquy in Hamlet, a play that is famous for its soliloquies. It appears in Hamlet, and is taken from one of Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquys: ‘ Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt.’ ‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ is one of the most quoted lines from Shakespeare. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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