Hamlet & Gertrude

Hamlet and Gertrude have an extremely interesting and complex relationship. Hamlet is strangely obsessed with his mother's sexual life with King Claudius. At first is seems as though he is angry about it because he believes their marriage is a disgrace to his father. Later, the reader realizes Hamlet is more obsessed with his mother having sexual relations, rather than the disgrace she brings to Hamlet's father. Hamlet gets so obsessed with his mothers actions, he eventually confronts her about it. He states to her: "Nay, but to live / In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, / Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love / Over the nasty sty..." (3.3.91-4). Hamlet is completely demeaning and speaks down to Gertrude in hopes of making her very upset. He is trying to get her to understand how horrid he thinks her actions are. He makes it seem as though he is doing this because of his father; however, perhaps he is yelling at Gertrude because Hamlet himself is obsessed with his mother's sexual relations and does not want her doing such deeds with Claudius.