The Gertrude Grief pie
Serves:
Hamlet, Gertrude, Ghost, and King Claudius
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups of messed up relationships
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we—as ’twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole—
Taken to wife. (I.II.8-14)
1 cups of a confused wife
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not forever with thy vailèd lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity. (I.II.71-76)
½ cups of an angry son
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark. (writes)
So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word. (115-117)
½ tsp of imagery
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;
No hat upon his head; his stockings fouled,
Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle;
Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosèd out of hell
To speak of horrors—he comes before me. (II.I.87-94)
2 cups of creamy decisive brother in law
Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
Preparation:
- Slowly pour and stir the 2 cups of creamy decisive brother in law into a large bowl and let sit for and let harden. The harder the better. (the crust)
- Next, beat the 1 cup of a confused wife into the mixture and let marinate. This will add the flavor.
- Set the oven to 350.
- In another bowl quickly pour the 1 ½ cups of messed up relationships and let harden for 6 lines.
- Use a whisk to completely mix the ½ of the angry son.
- Pour this into the crust and let it sit in the oven for 1 hour.
- Lastly, add the ½ of imagery to give it a little sparkle.
- Enjoy the delicious treat!
Rub:
This will allow Gertrude to grieve about her husband, which she never got to do.
Yield:
This soliloquy will help Gertrude realize that King Claudius isn’t who she thought he was.
Step 4: Soliloquy Pre-Writing: Explanation of Choices
This soliloquy will be said by Gertrude right before Hamlet’s first soliloquy in the play. Gertrude will think about how her husband was murdered and who did it. She will want to know why she instantly fell “in love” with her former brother in law. She will recognize the wrong in this and will want her new “husband” dead. Throughout the play we were never able to know how Gertrude felt about the death of her husband. She began a relationship with her brother-in-law, how did that come about? She was always on Claudius’ side but never on her own son’s. This soliloquy is simply telling how Gertrude really felt since she never got to grieve over the death of her husband. She has a lot of unanswered questions that she will try to answer herself but cant. This will lead her to wanting to get revenge on her “husband” before Hamlet even thinks about it.
Soliloquy
It all happened so fast
Mine love had vanished
Was it murder?
Was it a setup?
Who did it?
All of these unanswered question that I hath.
Questions I should’st hath the answers to!!
I fell i’ love so fast. Love or Lust?
But why? Wherefore am I married to thou? Why am i’ love with thee?
My brother i’ law. That’s wrong, I think.
Something isn’t right about tis. Kind of sneaky if ye ask me
Sneaky like a mouse creeping across the kitchen floor i’ the middle of the night.
What if A’ did it? Did it to rule the world?
Is A’ using me? I think so.
I wish I would’st known sooner, mayhap I could hath stopped thee.
A’ hath to be punished. A’ must be murdered too!!!
Karma!
I must dost something about tis me or Hamlet?
But how? When? Whither?
I don’t know the answers, but I still hath a question.
They must be answered.
The problems must be solved
They wilt be solved
Soon and passing soon!
Justification Essay
Prompt: Can your choices for character and his/her soliloquy be connected back to Hamlet?
The play by Shakespeare “Hamlet” is exceptionally remarkable in the fact that the conflicts that the characters come across are so out of the ordinary. Many of the problems that are introduced in Hamlet are most certainly the first time a reader has encountered something like this. Each character in the play plays a significant role to the book. Since there was a great deal of conflicts in Hamlet, that just means that there were a large number of feelings being thrown around. A way a lot of the characters in the play expressed their feelings for a person or something was “talking” to themselves, or a soliloquy. More feelings were expressed this way than talking to other characters in the book. I chose to write a soliloquy for Gertrude, the widow of King Hamlet and the new wife of King Claudius, because not only was a soliloquy of hers not included, but her feelings were never really expressed in the play.
The soliloquy that I wrote for Gertrude merely was to express her feelings for her deceased husband King Claudius. Gertrude by no means ever spoke on her feelings for Claudius in the play. She just moved on and married his brother, her brother-in-law. Incest? She went on about her life as if nothing ever happened. How did she feel? What was going on in her head? Gertrude always agreed with anything Claudius said, but why? She was really familiar with what was going on until the end of the book. The soliloquy adds a little spice to the play and lets the readers inside of her mind.
Gertrude has a lot of questions in the soliloquy, which she kind of answers herself. It allows the readers inside of her head, and let us make out what she is thinking. The soliloquy helps her grieve over her husband and distinguish the wrong from the right. After Gertrude asks herself all of the questions she comes to a conclusion that she was setup. Only problem is that she is smarter than everyone thinks. She decides that King Claudius will have to pay for the trouble that he has caused. The soliloquy reveals that she wants King Claudius to die, and that he will. Gertrude is surprised that Claudius killed her husband, but not so surprised.
This soliloquy will fit in the Hamlet play because no one ever reveals how Gertrude really felt. This will be a small cover up and everyone except the characters will know that Gertrude is behind the killing of Claudius. This will add suspense to the play because it will seem like Gertrude is clueless when she really is not. This will also allow the readers to know that she and Hamlets has a better relationship than what it seems. Without this soliloquy it seems like Gertrude is betraying her son for her “husband”. Adding this little twist will make hamlet a little more interesting for the reader
The soliloquy I wrote was able to reveal the true feelings of Gertrude. She was able to grieve over her husband and reveal that she wanted to kill Claudius. While the characters will not know that she has figured out that Claudius killed Hamlet, it will also add suspense because everyone will think she is clueless to what is going on. This soliloquy will be a perfect fit for hamlet because no one will expect this from Gertrude.