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This 3 page paper is a character analysis of Queen Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet discussing whether or not she is evil and looking at her negative and positive characteristics. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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as a character that is often perceived as one dimensional but in reality is more complex. The image of Queen Gertrude is that of evil, in many ways she is
the antithesis of Hamlet, as she is portrayed not only as an individual who is evil, but one who has chosen to lead a life lacking in mortality, not doing
wrong as result of ignorance. The way in which the character develops sees the gradual building of the character from selfishness and immortality moving towards evil, but her characteristics
are not limited to wrongdoing, there are also some aspects of compassion and love within her. Shakespeare like to present contrasts and
opposites; whereas Hamlet is a scholar and a philosopher and is free of common vices, Gertrude is the embodiment of vices, she is focused on her own pleasures and has
only shallow thoughts and seeking to possess fine clothes and trinkets and wanting soft pillows and warm baths (Granville-Barker 13). There are some question marks over the extent of
her immorality, as the ghost mutters "Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- O wicked wit, and gifts that have the power,
So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (Act I, Scene v). The term adulterate beast is sometimes interpreted to mean that Gertrude
was an adulteress and cheating on Hamlets father with Claudius even before he died. If this were the case then it would mean that Gertrude was even more evil than
she is portrayed as being, as she would have been complicit in the murder of Hamlets father. However the term means to change the state of and to make worse,
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