Gertrude is the one of the most controversial characters in Shakespeare's play. She uses her frailty as an excuse in order to make her strongly dependent upon the men. Her characteristics influence two main characters, Hamlet and King Claudius's ways of reactions.

For being a mother of Hamlet, Gertrude is inert and indolent to investigate and coddle Hamlet's inside of thinking. When the old King Hamlet dies, Gertrude ought to be poignant and maudlin toward her beloved husband which Hamlet describes their relationship in his soliloquy: ."..so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly." (Act I, Scene 2) Before his father's death, Hamlet deeply believed that his parents loved each other sincerely. However, Gertrude marries with Claudius by a unbelievable speed, "within a month :/ Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left...