Gertrude Character Summary
- Created by: joshharwood96
- Created on: 22-03-15 15:20
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- Gertrude
- Key Quotes
- Hamlet- 'Frailty, thy name is woman'
- Hamlet- 'Mother you have my father much offended'
- Hamlet- 'I will speak daggers to her, but I shall use none'
- Referring to Hamlet's madness
- 'Alas he is mad'
- 'this is the very coinage of your brain'
- 'You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife'
- Death- 'The king, the king's to blame'
- 'The lady doth protest too much'
- 'I hop'd thou shouldst have been Hamlet's wife"
- Background
- Hamlet's mother, recently married to Claudius
- She makes no attempt to search for the truth wanting the status quo
- She denies Claudius' place in the events
- She tries to pacify Hamlet and seems genuinely upset by Ophelias death, however this could be a guilty reflection of her own lack of faithfulness and purity
- Dies at the end by drinking the poisoned cup
- Key Quotes
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