"The Lady Doth Protest Too Much"

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This essay explores the relationship between Hamlet and his mother and how this is the key to his struggles throughout the play. It shows how Gertrude is the key to Hamlet's inextricable moral entanglement that prevents him from exacting justice.

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"Shakespeare's Hamlet is a man fraught with a plethora of moral dilemmas. At the heart of this is his sense of estrangement from all that is familiar to him in terms of his family's morality. Having a sense that his family is making a series of immoral judgments is disturbing enough in and of itself. What greatly compounds this unfavorable situation is the example his family is setting for himself (not to mention the nation of Denmark). However, the corruption most keenly felt by Hamlet is that of the one responsible for his own moral training: His mother."

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