What a pain for Hamlet to see his noble father in such pathetic condition. What a shame! His mother and uncle betrayed him and his father. Hamlet cries. Bitter tears flow of his beautiful, blue eyes. I cover this scene because very soon I will refer to it to argue those scholars interpretation who assert that Hamlet was “mad” craving for his mother’s sexual desire. “Unmanly grief” and “Oedipus” Hamlet or Gertrude’s sexual power?
Crowl, Brode, Cartmen and many others assert this idea of “Oedipus Hamlet”. Crowl persist that Hamlet could not step from Gertrude’s (radiant, golden) picture to Ophelia (a plain, puzzled) child, which assumes that Ophelia was denied Hamlet’s love because Hamlet could not compare that plain girl with the golden, vital Gertrude. We will come back to plain Ophelia yet, but let’s dig out a little and see if Crowl’s argument is relevant. In the act 2 scene 1 Gertrude runs out in virgin blue and heading trimmed with gold, jumping on Claudius as a young girl and kissing him passionately, then with her look asking him