Claudius's love for Gertrude may be sincere, but it also seems likely that he married her as a strategic move, to help him win the throne away from Hamlet after the death of the king.
In a BBC interview Doran explained that his production was rooted in the premise that Gertrude and Claudius enjoyed 'a vigorous sexual relationship' within, and prior to, the events of the play. He viewed the two characters' marriage as a love match.
Gertrude and Claudius marry each other while Hamlet is still grieving the death of his father. Even though he does not know the new king is the murderer, Hamlet is explicitly against the marriage for some reason, and he keeps accusing his mother of lust until she regrets her decision.
Claudius also implies that Gertrude's marriage to him has a political function, calling her “Th'imperial jointress to this warlike state” (1.2. 9). They married to show that the former king's death did not break Denmark; rather, the “jointress” and her new union have strengthened it.
Even though Hamlet lashes out at her with all the rage he can muster, Gertrude remains faithful to him, protecting him fron the King. And, although her love for Claudius is wrong by moral standards, she is now his queen, and remains loyal to him.
Claudius's love for Gertrude may be sincere, but it also seems likely that he married her as a strategic move, to help him win the throne away from Hamlet after the death of the king.
She is often the victim of oppression and surveillance. She cannot be interpreted related with her own utterances. She has been the victim of males' words in the play. Gertrude should not be thought only as a sensual woman without taking into consideration of her sufferings and Hamlet's behaviours.
To ensure Hamlet's death, Claudius also has a poisoned cup of wine should Hamlet win the duel. Claudius does not intervene when Gertrude drinks the poisoned cup of wine because he does not want to give himself away.
She married less than two months after the death of Old Hamlet.
Claudius seduces Gertrude before he murders King Hamlet to be sure that she will marry him. From the way Gertrude was responding to him, Claudius knows that she will marry him. Claudius is sure his plan will work and murders King Hamlet and marries Gertrude to become the new King and Queen.
Gertrude and Claudius, a John Updike novel, serves as a prequel to the events of the play. It follows Gertrude from her wedding to King Hamlet, through an affair with Claudius, and its murderous results, until the very beginning of the play.
Although her guilt or innocence in this matter is arguable, her culpability of many other deaths is also a subject worth investigating. Queen Gertrude is a woman observably guilty of poor judgment and weak character. Her decisions, based largely on desire, lead to her death and the casualty of others as well.
Gertrude loves her son. At the beginning of the play, she could have shown more empathy for Hamlet, who just lost his father. Nevertheless, throughout the story, Gertrude continuously defends her son in front of Claudius. Her actions prove that she loves him.
Gertrude is just a mother, trying to protect his son from being hurt. In the final scene of the play, Gertrude drinks the poisoned wine that Claudius has prepared for Hamlet. Even though Claudius tells Gertrude not to drink, Gertrude does it for his son.
After her first husband is murdered, the new king decides to take her as his bride. Even if she was emotionally opposed to the pairing, Gertrude, a woman and royal only by marriage, would have almost no authority to reject the marriage to Claudius. Yet Hamlet still places the blame entirely upon Gertrude.
In the play, the Player Queen believes it would be betrayal to marry someone else. However, in real life, Queen Gertrude at once marries Claudius and this shows that she didn't love him and that she had a dependency on men because they would keep her safe.
In her defense, as a woman, Gertrude likely felt pressure to remarry, especially in a position as queen of Denmark. She cares deeply for Hamlet. Still, her loyalty lies most closely with Claudius, not Hamlet, as she defers to any decision made by Claudius on Hamlet's behalf.
Gertrude being pregnant might be part of the motivation behind Claudius's murder of Hamlet's father, and it might also explain the reason for the "o'erhasty marriage." It would also explain Ophelia's line, ". . .
In Sigmund Freud's concept, which Shakespeare was familiar with, it is proposed in Hamlet that he and his mother kiss because Hamlet no longer wants to allow his mother to sleep with Claudius.
Gertrude Lines 68-73 Gertrude tells Hamlet that he should no longer wear black mourning clothes and that he should look happier. She tells him he should not keep his eye downward as if he were looking for his father in the dirt. She reminds him that all people must die.
Grief-stricken and outraged, Hamlet bursts upon the company, declaring in agonized fury his own love for Ophelia. He leaps into the grave and fights with Laertes, saying that “forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / make up my sum” (V.i.254–256).
The poison poured in the king's ear by Claudius is used by the ghost to symbolize the corrosive effect of Claudius's dishonesty on the health of Denmark. Declaring that the story that he was killed by a snake is a lie, he says that “the whole ear of Denmark” is “Rankly abused. . . .” (I.v.36–38).
Hamlet speaks to the apparition, but Gertrude is unable to see it and believes him to be mad.
Gertrude does keep his secret of his fake madness...she does tell the king about the murder of poloniuous which is fine because he didn't say to keep that a secret, but she does keep his fake madness a secret.
Hamlet then verbally attacks his mother for marrying Claudius. In the middle of Hamlet's attack, the Ghost returns to remind Hamlet that his real purpose is to avenge his father's death. Gertrude cannot see the Ghost and pities Hamlet's apparent madness.