

In season 3, the homeless woman appears when Jax is in Belfast following the husband and wife who had adopted Abel. When the shrink comes out to the waiting room, she calls Gemma, not even acknowledging that the homeless woman is there. Gemma speaks to the homeless woman, asking if she knew her, to which the homeless woman replied, "Everyone knows me," and before that when Gemma is waiting outside the shrink's office, where the homeless woman is already there, as if waiting to see the shrink herself. In season 2, the homeless woman appears twice: once when Gemma was waiting for Unser outside of a church after Gemma had been raped. When he wakes up, he gives the blanket he used back to the same homeless woman before going to Donna's funeral. Jax went on a bender and wound up falling asleep in the graveyard where his father is buried. She appears again in the season 1 finale after Jax finds out that Tig and Clay were responsible for Donna's murder. The first time is when Gemma approaches her and gives her some money during season 1. The Homeless Woman has appeared on Sons of Anarchy seven times. But I think some of the archetypes are there, some of the relationships are there, and as the seasons progress you will see some parallels in terms of story and character arcs (as they) continue to play out. More recently, Sutter said "The Hamlet archetypes will definitely influence the show, and I've talked about that quite a bit, but the show itself is not directly based on that narrative. Aside from those parallels, the show has little to no similarities to Hamlet.

However, Sutter has said the only real elements of Hamlet are that John Teller (the king) was murdered by his Vice President (Clay Morrow) and best friend (brother), and took the throne and the queen (Gemma) for himself, while becoming a father figure to Jax (the prince/Hamlet).

The reason being that it was easy to pitch to the network to give them a rough idea of what the plotline would be. Writer and creator Kurt Sutter has stated time and time again that the Pilot episode was partially structured after Hamlet.
