Gertrude's selfishness is the one interesting trait in what is otherwise a very dull characterisation by Shakespeare. She loves to be happy. Her great anxiety seems to be to avoid trouble and to keep other people happy. Her early request to hamlet to "cast off thy mourning clothes " and to look on Claudius as his father even though she has doubts about their "overhasty marriage" is typical of her spinel

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Approximate Word count = 406
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)