Gertrude

avaricious, and manipulative character that contrasts greatly with the hero Hamlet, who values justice and morality above all else. In the play, Claudius yearns for the throne of Denmark, murdering his brother, King Hamlet and marrying his sister-in-law, Gertrude, in order to attain it. His actions throughout the play portray him as a shrewd and self-serving man. He unjustly gains the throne and will stop at nothing to protect it. Claudius proves to be an insecure man; any small threat to his…

becomes consumed by his anger and starts to verbally attack Gertrude for her decision to marry Claudius. As Hamlet starts talking to an invisible ghost, Gertrude believes that her son’s mind has become intoxicated by the disease of insanity, as she states, “This the very coinage of your brain./This bodiless creation ecstasy/Is very cunning in” (3.4.139-141). It is evident that Gertrude fears Hamlet for what he has become. At this moment, Gertrude begins her soliloquy and exhibits her thoughts…

Even though Gertrude seems to go through a couple different stages of good and evil she ultimately redeems herself before her death. Gertrude is seen as the wife of old King Hamlet and the mother of younger Hamlet. With the death of old King Hamlet she grieved for a short while, but almost immediately following the death, Gertrude was married to Claudius. “Why she, even she married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules” (1.2.151-158). Marrying Claudius…

Uncle/Stepfather, Claudius. The line between good and evil in this work is not easy to recognize because even though it is clear that Claudius is on the evil (or bad) side since he killed King Hamlet to become king and inadvertently kills Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, when she drinks the poisoned wine meant for Hamlet that he poisoned; Hamlet blurs the line between good and evil because of the actions that he takes. His actions blur the line because while he does accidently kill Polonius, he feels…

of his mother. In the beginning of Act IV, Queen Gertrude confides in King Claudius about her talk with Prince Hamlet and his strange behavior. The Queen describes how mad Prince Hamlet was acting before he killed Polonius. King Claudius then sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to retrieve Prince Hamlet and take him to England immediately. After learning of Polonius’s death, his children, Ophelia and Laertes, change dramatically. Queen Gertrude just witnessed Polonius’s death and is…

it seems the same since the main character tries to show how he really missed his father but also how this event had made that Hamlet feels bad about the situation. In the play, the king Claidious manifests that Hamlet has distemper and the queen Gertrude thinks that the father´s death is the cause of that. As it is presented…

relationship. Hamlet and his mother Gertrude make different decisions that they don’t necessarily agree on, but she is still his mother and he deeply loves her even through her betrayal. The mother Gertrude married his uncle and he is upset because he is trying to seek revenge against him. He hoped for his mother to open her eyes and realize how Claudius is villainous.…

in the meaning, yet chiding in tone – a warning of the anger that is to come, as well as a demonstration of the hidden existence of his sanity. Nonetheless, his erratic behaviour and mood swings seem to indicate a mental disorder. His rant towards Gertrude is marked by conspicuous actions, like jumping onto the bed to emphasize his point and pulling the sheets off the bed, as well as his intense emotions of reverence and rage towards his father and uncle respectively. The appearance of the ghost…

decisions that they make. In the writing these women also help shape the outcome of. Ophelia and Gertrude from Hamlet, Thea Elvsted from Hedda Gabler, and Grete from Metamorphosis are examples of women who even though were limited to their opportunities based on the time period were able to have an impact on the central character and the theme of the story whether for the good or bad of it. Gertrude and Ophelia are two women who with their actions completely changed Hamlet’s feelings toward…

At the beginning of the play Claudius seems happy about his marriage to Gertrude. He expresses in his soliloquy that Gertrude was one of the reasons for killing his own brother, “Of those effects for which I did murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen” (3.3.58-9). However, in the last scene of Laertes and Hamlet’s fight He poisons Hamlet’s drink but does nothing to prevent Gertrude from drinking it. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern both appear to be Hamlet’s friends; “My…