Copy and paste a detail paragraph from your research paper in to the blog.
The main idea of this paragraph is to show how happily married Gertrude and Claudius were. Johnson stated, “After the marriage, she and Claudius seemed to be very united and happy together.” This supports the thesis because it was questioned if their marriage was real and their happiness proves it was. That is to say that both of their intentions were good.
List five quotes with parenthetical citations from your research. You must include only one (1) quote from the play, Hamlet, that is relevant to your research paper.
The purpose for this research paper is to investigate what kind of relationship Gertrude and Claudius had. “The queen his mother lives almost by his looks; and for myself-my virtue or my plague, be it either which-she's so conjunctive to my life and soul, that, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her” (Shakespeare 4.7.13-18). “After killing King Hamlet, Claudius approaches Gertrude and she falls for his inducements and agrees to marry him. He lusts for her but she refuses him — no sex before marriage — she lives by the Christian ethic” (“Gertrude and Claudius”). “After the marriage, she and Claudius seemed to be very united and happy together” (Johnson). “You ask if Gertrude married "for love or pleasure". If only pleasure, then why bother marrying? What would she have to gain by it? She was already Queen” (Schulman). “In the movie Hamlet, Gertrude drank the poisoned cup without Claudius stopping her” (Hamlet).
Copy your five Works Cited entries in the appropriate order.
Works Cited “Gertrude and Claudius.” glind.customer.netspace.net.au. Glind, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. Hamlet. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Perf. Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet. Castle Rock, 1996. DVD. Johnson, Amanda. “The Hamlet Site.” vccslitonline.cc.va.us. VCCS Litonline, 20 April 2005. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. Schulman, Arlene. “Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” allexperts.com. allexperts, 13 December 2007. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Eds. Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. Lamar. New York: Washington Square Press, 1958. Print.
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