e wedding of Claudius to Gertrude. Hamlet also has a soliloquy in which he refers to
Gertrude as a "...damned smiling villain...". This exemplifies how he feels concerning her
behavior with Claudius as well. it shows that he directly blames her for her own actions
and feels that she is in her own way evil. It also shows that hamlet thinks Gertrude is
cognizant of what happened to Hamlet Sr. by calling her the villain. This is implying that
she had a hand in his death.(Shakespear
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