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Prince Hamlet throughout the play is shown to be obsesses with Gertrude's sexual relationship with Claudius.

Hamlet tells his mother that she 'makes marriage vows as false as dicers' oaths' this simile is saying that the marriage vows of Gertrude was all a lie. 'Dicers' lie in order to get what they want. So Hamlet could be accusing her that she never truly loved Late King Hamlet.

Yet, Hamlet seems to mention his opinions about Gertrude's and Claudius marriage a lot throughout the play. This could link to Oedipus complex.

This links to Hamlet and the relationship between his mother in that Hamlet wants to kill King Claudius so that he can replace him as King and be with his mother. In the play book there is no evidence to show that Hamlet is sexually attracted to his mother but in the film version his actions towards his mother can suggest otherwise.

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Words used by Hamlet have shown a high degree of manipulation. Because of the distress and shock that he had encountered one could argue that it descended him into madness. From this madness, came obsession and the obsession manifested into selfishness and thus, manipulation.

In Act 3 Sc 4, Hamlet seems to have lost all sense and believes that he can get whatever he wants through force. After comparing King Hamlet to all the gods "Hyperion's curls" and "eye like Mars" or "like the herald mercury" he wants Gertrude to realize how good of a husband she had lost after neglecting his death and marrying Claudius. Hamlet forcibly tells Gertrude that "this is your husband"; the word 'this' is specific and specifically refers to only King Hamlet. This shows that Hamlet believes that his father is still the true king and wants his mother to believe that too.

Furthermore, manipulation is also shown when Hamlet asks Gertrude "have you eyes?". This implies that Hamlet thinks Gertrude is blind from seeing the truth, corruption and atrocity of Claudius' actions. This is one needs "eyes" in order to see things clearly. He however, wants Gertrude to be able to see the truth as shown through the forceful manner of the question with the pronoun "you" showing that Hamlet is directly putting pressure on Gertrude. This further highlights how Hamlet believes that what he sees is the truth and that no one else is able to especially his mother - this is linked to his stubbornness and hamartia (his tragic flaw). Hamlet then wants Gertrude to see what he sees through manipulation and controlling.

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Throughout the play Gertrude's role is passive and she has no soliloquy. This means that we as an audience do not know how she really feels because she is not given the opportunity to speak about her internal feelings towards Hamlet. However, her decisions will eventually lead to her death.

Her tragic flaw is poor judgment which is shown in Act 2 Scene 2 where she has the inability to realise that her second marriage can bee seen as adultery to those around her. Her attitude is that if she and Claudius had simply waited longer before marrying to give Hamlet more time to grieve Hamlet might have reacted better. She doesn't face Hamlet's concept that perhaps the marriage shouldn't have happened at all.

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In Hamlet's conversation with Gertrude, many times does he uses lots of different imageries in order to express his feelings and compare things.

One of this the use Roman/Greek Gods: When describing his father, he compares him to many roman gods like "Mars" and "Mercury" as well as "Hyperion". This gives King Hamlet a sense that he was very powerful and highly-respected figure as if he was god, or at least that's how Hamlet views him. "To threaten and command" shows how intimidating his father could be but with such power that Hamlet respects. This notion is further supported by the fact that Mars is the god of war.

'Hyperion' is known as the god of heavenly light and this shows how much Hamlet reveres his father. Being the heavenly light could also show the hope and guide he used to be in Hamlet's life and now that he's gone, his mother had also lost that precious person to guide her and shine her the light. Hamlet perhaps purposely describe his father this way to exacerbate Gertrude's guilt in feeling no remorse for his death and the lack of shame when marrying Claudius.

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Oedipus Complex - A young boy being subconsciously sexually attracted to his Mother.

Envy and Jealously is aimed at the father due to wanting to be the center of affection and attention. These feeling for the mother leads towards a fantasy of getting rid of the father and taking his place with the mother.

The hostile feelings towards the father can lead to anxiety and irrational fear that the father will castrate him as a punishment.

To cope with this the son identifies with the father - this means the son internalises attitudes, characteristics and values his father holds.

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Since Oedipus was also a Greek Tragedy, there are also links between Hamlet and conventions of a Greek Tragedy. In both stories there is hamartia, this is the presence of tragic flaw and a tragic hero.

Obviously, Oedipus and Hamlet is the tragic hero in each story, however, the nature of their respective tragic flaws could be said to be interpreted differently. Hamlet's tragic flaw is that of his obsession and desire for revenge that has manifested from the anger from the revelation that Claudius had killed his father. This is whilst Oedipus' tragic flaw is his ignorance and anger.

These are two quite contrasting ideas, but nevertheless, the two stories are connected through themes like incest, family, betrayal, and corruption within the court.

Other conventions that both Hamlet and greek tragedies have in common includes the downfall of the protagonist, peripeteia, anagnorisis.