Conflit entre mère et fils dans la pièce de théâtre Hamlet de William Shakespeare (document en anglais)

In Hamlet Shakespeare’s and the play of “Andre’s Mother”, they both deal with a conflict between mother and son. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet is disgusted by his mother because when his father died, his mother hastily re-married is husband brother, Claudius. He feels betrayed and hate towards his mother for her actions. This is shown when Hamlet says; “She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. (1.2.6) In the play, Andre’s Mother, by Terrence McNally, Andre didn’t know how to deal with the situations by telling his mother he was gay, so he decided to kill is self. We can see that both stories deal with different situation. Hamlet and Andre’s mother have difficulty to accept certain things. Hamlet did not accept his father’s death and the fact that his mother married his uncle a short time after his father’s death. He feels like her mom is not guilty for it. Also, Andre’s mother did not accept her son homosexuality. It is clear when Cal tells Andre’s mother how much Andre missed her and longed for her acceptance and she did not say a word. For Hamlet and Cal, it seem like the mothers don’t really care because they are both not showing some sadness to the death of their husband or son.

In hamlet Shakespeare, Hamlet discovered that his mother’s new husband, Claudius, had killed his father to marry his mother Gertrude so he can become the new king of Denmark. In “Andre’s Mother” short story, a young man died before telling his mother that he was gay with is boyfriend Cal. In both stories hamlet and Cal loose someone very close to them.Hamlet struggled if he should avenge his father's death, to face what he has been avoiding, and this is similar to what Andre faced. Andre was stuck and did not know how to deal with the situations between him and his mother. He could of tell his mother and lose her respect or keep who he really was a secret, kind of like Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles..." . Both of them are sending a different message in the stories. Hamlet is saying that if people knew what was ahead of them, like after death, then a lot of people would be killing themselves and Ca

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