Gertrude Anaylisis

Gertrude is the loving wife and mother in the play, Hamlet. Many say that she is responsible for Hamlet's agony because of her hasty marriage and her ignorance to the murder of her husband and her sons disapproval. Beautiful and warm-hearted, she has no mind of her own, and she seems to be pulled by whatever force is the most powerfully aimed at her. Gertrude seems to be the kind of person who avoids conflict …

…toasting his victory, ignorant to the poison. Against Claudius' objection, she drinks to her son to show him how happy he has made her. She finally understands what is really going on when the poison begins to kill her, and she hears Claudius lie about her condition “she swoons to see them bleed.”(act five, scene 2). Trying too late to protect her son, Hamlet, she dies a victim of vanity and ignorant hope for happiness.