In Hamlet’s soliloquy, he explains his resent towards his mother, Gertrude, for marrying his uncle, Claudius, so soon after his father’s death. Hamlet holds his father in high regard and does not think that Claudius can even be compared to him. Therefor, Hamlet thinks that by Gertrude marrying Claudius, she shows no love toward his father, and he is aware of how much his father loved his mother. When Hamlet says “Frailty, thy name is woman,” (Hamlet, I.ii) he is referring to all women. Because of his disgust with Gertrude, he believes that all women are frail and possess a weak character.
When comparing Gertrude with other literary women, we can look back on characters such as Daisy from The Great Gatsby, Curley’s wife from Of Mice and Men, and Lenina from Brave New World. All of these women show a weak sense of character throughout their stories.
Starting with Daisy from The Great Gatsby, she was a very self-centered and distracted
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Like everybody else in the society of this story, Lenina is conditioned to feel only happy and good. She is obsessed with the idea of sex and intrigues a lot of men. She does not want to be involved with only one man, but many. So for Bernard, who is very attracted to her, he feels wrong about getting intimate with her because he knows she doesn’t want to feel as attracted to him as he does to her. This same situation is introduced later in the story when Lenina and John the savage meet. John is immediately interested in Lenina, but not in the way that most men are. When Lenina wants to become sexually intimate with John, he becomes angry and confused and almost hurts her, getting him into trouble. By Lenina getting sexually involved with so many men, she puts several men’s feelings at stake. But she is so obsessed with the good, happy feelings that she doesn’t really care for the men who care about her. This strongly shows a weak