Betrayal In Shakespeare's Hamlet

In the beginning of the play, Gertrude hastily marries Claudius once he had come to power as king. It can be assumed that perhaps her marriage with Claudius was purely due to her being driven solely by her feelings and her deep emotional connection with those close to her. Because of this, she often times lives in the moment and does not bother contemplating about the past or future, making her current position to grasp for as much power as she can. Because of this, Hamlet is still infuriated by Gertrude's actions on marrying hebrother-in-law, his uncle, as swiftly as she did. This is seen when Hamlet berates her with insults on how easily she married Claudius just two months after her husband's death. Once Hamlet says “ O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to

In addition, Gertrude goes through a moment where she is figuratively blind when making a judgment. When Hamlet told her about how King Hamlet was killed she didn’t believe it. He says she has been blind this whole time to it and even though Claudius appears innocent he is not. Gertrude married soon after King Hamlet’s death because her love and loneliness blinded her. This led to her to make incestuous actions. Hamlet is annoyed with his mother and how naive she is to his father’s death:

Does love exist when someone is intentionally out to hurt their loved one? There is nothing more vulgar than betrayal and exploitation from family. In the tragedy, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare sometime in between 1599 to 1601, false love spirals around the kingdom of Denmark. Betrayal in the royal family causes death and distrust. Darkness spreads around the kingdom as King Hamlet dies and everything falls apart for his son, Hamlet. Revenge adds to the conflict that occurs between the parents and their children. All of this contributes to the misery of the main characters of the play and their lack of forgivingness. Love causes corruption rather than peace within the people of the kingdom. Through disloyalty and deception, families in the play, Hamlet, have a negative influence on the main characters of the play.

Hamlet and Gertrude used to be close to each other, but Hamlet felt that Gertrude betrayed him by marrying Claudius. He said:“a beast, that wants discourse of reason,/ Would have mourn’d longer” , suggesting Gertrude was unfaithful to her husband before the funeral (I, ii, 150-151). Since she is always doing her job as an obedient wife for her husband and a good queen to the public, it is likely for the audience to interpret that Gertrude really married Claudius to save the nation. However, Claudius uses her trust as the tool to the throne, which portray Gertrude as a weak-minded woman since she is easily

However, there is more to Gertrude than we see at the beginning of the play. When Prince Hamlet tells his mother about Claudius’s role in King Hamlet’s murder and his own false madness, he gives her the option of telling Claudius about his faked madness or of keeping silent and therefore defying her husband. Gertrude tells Prince Hamlet that she will keep his secret and in doing so chooses to defy her husband (“No Fear Hamlet”). In Shakespeare’s time, society expected women to remain faithful to their husbands, but Gertrude chose to protect her son

Despite the fact that Gertrude has very little role and few lines in the play still she is central to the action of the play. Prince Hamlet hatred and disgust for her mother as she marries Claudius, is one of the main important reflections of the play. This is because in times of Shakespeare, marrying husband's brother after husband's death was considered as a sin and disloyalty with the husband. Secondly, Prince Hamlet also considered Claudius inferior to his father, late King Hamlet in all aspects of life. Gertrude deeply loved her son and was very much concerned about his depression and gloominess (Barrons, 93) but Hamlet hated her. He considered her responsible for his father's death

In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the Queen, Gertrude, helps present to idea of betrayal by not only betraying her son, Hamlet, but by being betrayed by her second husband, Claudius. Gertrude betrayed Hamlet by marrying Claudius only a month after King Hamlet’s death. Hamlet was very against their marriage and the Queen was aware of this. In Hamlet’s eyes, Gertrude betrayed him by mourning his late father so quickly, with very little tears, and then quickly moving on to another man. Not only did she marry very quickly, but she married Hamlet’s Uncle, Claudius. Hamlet would have most likely been less against the marriage had his mother not married his father’s brother. On the other side, Gertrude was betrayed by Claudius when she drank the chalice

Furthermore, after the play when Rosencratz and Guildenstern, sailed to Denmark by the King to do a special mission. They kept a secret from Hamlet to grasp the pieces of information to present to King Claudius about Hamlet. Rosencratz and Guildenstern acted like they dropped by to visit Hamlet, but instead they just spied for Claudius. Additionally, Hamlet was left alone after King Claudius was finishing talking to everyone, Hamlet paused before he began to argue with himself, “There she was marrying my uncle, my father’s brother,’ (Shakespeare 29). After the funeral that happen to King Hamlet, Gertrude decided to marry her ex-husband brother, Claudius. Hamlet knew that this was no accident, he knew how she betrayed behind Hamlet and his father back. Even though Gertrude brought Hamlet into the world and care for him, he still want something shameful to happen to her from the sins she made. Hamlet felt like Gertrude cheated on his father during their marriage. It hurt him so much cause he was mourning in grief that she was too busy kissing up to Claudius. Even though, Hamlet is inspired from all secrets spiraling behind his back, he was also influenced by the anger he has that are flaming in his

Shakespeare starts the play by making Gertrude look foolish and weak in act one. Right after the death of Gertrude’s husband, her brother in law Claudius, manipulates her to marry him so he can fill his thirst for power. Shakespeare shows Gertrude to be gullible and weak because she marries Claudius two months after her husband’s death. Gertrude’s weakness in act one causes the whole audience to lose respect for her and even her son Hamlet talks about his loss for respect. As Claudius betrays himself as a loving, caring, stepfather to Hamlet, Gertrude foolishly believes

When betrayed, one usually has negative emotions towards the people who have betrayed them. This idea is illustrated well in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, it is shown that betrayal affects the actions of Hamlet towards his friends and family, which indicates that the pursuit of vengeance often can cause one to forget the value of life. The betrayals that Hamlet suffered at the hands of his close friends and family, revealed important parts of Hamlet’s character, such as his intelligence, he is a very meticulous thinker that looks at situations from all angles, he is cunning, he has the ability to manipulate everyone into believing that he is insane, and he is skeptical, he does not believe any information until he

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, act three, scene two, line 327, Hamlet is in the middle of a conversation with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, which, as usual for Hamlet, is laden with riddles and double meanings.   Upon discovery that his old schoolmates visit to Denmark is not out of chance, but actually part of a plot by Claudius to understand why Hamlet has gone mad.  Thus upon discovering their motives for returning to Denmark, Hamlet no longer has trust or camaraderie for his former friends. In order to cause confusion for both Claudius and the two hired spies, he is participates in dialogue with the two, though his relationship is not the same as it once was.  Instead of an honest

Gertrude desire to stay queen had led to the failure of noticing Hamlet’s attitude towards her resentful new marriage. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother the widow of old king Hamlet and the wife of claudius the old king’s brother claudius. her feelings for her first husband has not been revealed yet, her relationship with her second husband’s guilt or sons accusation. she plays a major role in Hamlet’s inner life he complains about his mother failure to honor his father's memory, his doubt about her seems to color his response to ophelia. she accidently dies at the end of the play when she drinks a poison that was intended for her son. (Harold Bloom). At the play Queen invites hamlet to sit near her she is definitely trying to make him feel like he had a place in the court of Denmark. She

Moreover, Gertrude’s timing after the incident and actions she executed, and later on, were interpreted as careless towards Hamlet. As stated in the text, “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off/… Thou know’st tis common, all that lives must die.” (Hamlet 1.2.68) Provided that, we can imply that Gertrude seemed to have not wanted mourn for long and behaved in a calm manner. For this reason, Hamlet begins to think that Gertrude has moved on quickly knowing that at this point in the play Claudius was already introduced and was in contact with Gertrude. As well as, Gertrude which is the Queen and mother of Hamlet knows has an idea of why Hamlet was acting the way that he did mention that it may because of the father’s death and her marriage with Claudius. With this in mind in the play it demonstrates Gertrude’s negligence, “Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz./My too much changed son. Go some of you,/ and bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.” (Shakespeare 2.2.34) Not to mention, Gertrude seemed to show no interest in handling the situation of Hamlet’s behavior herself nor does she have a personal conversation with Hamlet on her thoughts of the father’s loss.

Gertrude is the Queen, and her husband was the King. When her husband dies, Gertrude marries his brother within three months. To Hamlet, this symbolized his uncle and his mother’s insufficient loyalty to his father. In the first scene, Gertrude has the audacity to tell Hamlet that his father is dead, and he should just stop thinking about it. She does not seem to understand why Hamlet is so upset about his father and her marriage, which displays insufficient sadness to her husband’s death. She tells him that death happens to everyone and asks “Why it seems so particular with thee?” (I.ii.75-85) She is asking why he is so upset about this particular situation. He replies by telling her it does not seem like he is grieving, he is. He says he dresses in black and acts moody for a reason, since he is actually grieving. He even goes as far to say his grief much worse on the inside. Hamlet begins to blame his mother for his father’s death as well, since she seems like she did not even care about her former husband. Insufficient grief from Gertrude sends a signal of indifference. If she was genuinely remorseful about what had happened, she would be just as upset as Hamlet. Instead, she and Claudius have formed a front, so that people will not ask questions or suspect anything. In all, if Gertrude had acted more sympathetic toward Hamlet, he may not have suspected her, and readers

Few Shakespearean characters have caused as much uncertainty as Gertrude, the beautiful Queen of Denmark. The play seems to raise more questions about Gertrude than it answers, including: Was she involved with Claudius before the death of her husband? Did she love her husband? Did she know about Claudius’s plan to commit the murder? Did she love Claudius, or did she marry him simply to keep her high station in Denmark? Does she believe Hamlet when he insists that he is not mad, or does she pretend to believe him simply to protect herself? Does she intentionally betray Hamlet to Claudius, or does she believe that she is protecting her son’s secret? These questions can be answered in numerous ways, depending on one’s reading of the play. The Gertrude who does emerge clearly in Hamlet is a woman defined by her desire for station and affection, as well as by her tendency to use men to fulfill her instinct for self-preservation—which, of course, makes her extremely dependent upon the men in her life.