responsible for Hamlet's agony in not being able to proceed with his revenge, and

Claudius' hesitation to guard himself through the destruction of Hamlet. She is the woman

who was "my virtue or my plague, be it either which," for both of her loves, and is herself

a very ordinary person. Seemingly beautiful and warm-hearted, she has no mind of her

own, and is vulnerable because she tends to be pulled by whatever force is the most

powerfully aimed at her at any moment. Because of her character and personality, she

turns to the "sunny side of life" and hates facing pain or any type of conflict. Also, the fact

that Claudius carefully hid his crime of killing her husband from her shows her lack of

criminal daring and his concern for her peace of mind. When things worked out so that she

was able to marry her lover, however, she was happy and only wanted all the difficulties of

Hamlet's refusal to forget the death of his father or to forgive her of incestuously

remarrying Claudius are the only things that stop Gertrude from being perfectly happy;

they remind her of the continuing difficulties of the positi

your offered love like love / and will not wrong it." Act 5, scene 2, lines 266-267), but

conscience, foreboding a catastrophe ("To my sick soul (as sin's true nature is), / Each toy

at peace with each other, and if Hamlet and Claudius were also at peace with each other,

gets into the event, so that she wipes her dear son's brow and finally insists upon toasting

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