Queen Gertrude
Queen Gertrude herself does not play such a big role in the duration of the play, but her actions and intentions causes a basis for the entire play as well as hamlets dilemma. Although her actions at times seem to favor hamlet, and are to benefit him, it is obvious that her emotions and decisions are biased by Claudius. She seems at times to be a maternal character as she worries about hamlet quite a fair bit yet cannot do much as Claudius seems to call all the shots. It is unclear in the story the exact reason for her will to marry Claudius although, it is justified to be for the greater good of
It can also be argued that hamlets recent caricature of acting mad has led him somewhat insane as he seems not to care about anything but the purpose that the ghost has set him to achieve. Her comforting words do not sound of that of a loving widow, almost a little too apathetic. Hamlet seems to be influenced very much as he acts in the first place by the hatred of Gertrude's doing. She seems to be very hasty about her husband's death, "Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die". Queen Gertrude is seen very few times through the duration of the play, yet her influence is quite large as it seems to lead the audience in an array of beliefs, which lead to be true at times and false at others. He already had various encounters with his own emotions and feelings and decided it was time to act and not procrastinate about the consequences, although he felt that the action of taking another's life is abhorrent he realized that in a world such as this, created by death and corruption it makes more sense to take drastic actions to achieve his goals regardless the cost or consequence; this also may have contributed to his apathetic attitude towards Polonius' death. Hamlets reaction to the death of Polonius is quite apathetic due to the reason of the current madness going around in the castle it self, the ghost also distracts attention away from the death of Polonius. the nation, but this does seem to be reason enough as it seems to raise question able attributes towards her character. The quote "I shall obey you" shows the amount hold and power Claudius has over Gertrude.
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