Jealousy In Hamlet

Hamlet is the most known tragedy in all of literary history and considering the name of the play it explains the tragedy perfectly if someone has read the text. The way that Shakespeare portrays the mother, the old Polonius, and Claudius is full of disgust. The suspicion of Claudius killing the king automatically makes him an enemy, the fact that his mother married him shortly after her husband died is frowned upon and is also considered incestuous, and the nosey old man does not help the audience or reader have a desire to pity them. All of these characters are hard to pity, but depending on the audiences view of the play they may feel sorrow for the mother or the old man when he is killed. In the majority of the audiences or reader who know this play well, they favor Hamlet as the holder of the most tragedy. There are many reasons to pity the character Hamlet, his father dies in very short time his uncle marries his mother, he is shadowed by the question of his father’s ghost, and because of everything he is going through no one understands him and thinks he has lost all sanity.

Hamlet had not only lost his father and is mourning, but is also horrified at his mother’s incestuous actions. He does not respect his uncle or his mother for forgetting everything that happened and “falling in love”. “No, by the rood, not so. You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife, and, would it were not so, you are my mother.” (Hamlet, lines 16-18). Hamlet speaks to his mother in quite a sarcastic tone, he does not care how he makes them feel because of how they made him feel. They corrupted his family, forgot his father, and act like Hamlet is a