Does Gertrude Trust In Hamlet

Betrayal

When someone gets stabbed in the back, it is not easy to forgive or trust that person or anyone else because of recent experiences. Trust is not given but earned, sometimes the people closest to us are the ones who hurt us the most. This is in the play Hamlet when Claudius kills his own brother and gets married to his wife for power, this shows the trait jealousy. Hamlet is not only grieving over his father's death, but in eye theirs no one on his side he trust no one.

Queen Gertrude, betrays both her son and her dead husband. First she turns her back on her dead husband by marrying his brother so shortly after his death. If she really loved him she would be mourning his death but instead she would be quick to marry his brother as

This is the point where he doesn’t trust no one and has extreme trust issues Hamlet’s trust for them is confirmed when he tells his mother that he only trust them, “here’s letters sealed, and my two schoolfellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged, and they bear the mandate” (Act 3.Scene 4.Line 107-109). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern work for Claudius and the Queen by spying on Hamlet and giving reports back to them, “But we both obey and here give up ourselves, in the full bent, to lay our service freely at your feet to be commanded” (Act 2.Scene 2.Line 29-32). Hamlet found out about the plan to kill him in England that both “friends” easily agree to, this goes to show it can even be your best friends and family that want to see you fall. “Their grand commission, where I found, Horatio—O royal knavery!—an exact command, larded with many several sorts of reasons Importing Denmark’s health, and England’s too, with—ho!—such bugs and goblins in my life that, on the supervise (no leisure bated, no, not to stay the grinding of the ax) my head should be struck off” (Act 5.Scene 2.Line 19-26). “They are typical of men whose inclinations are good, but who lack character to follow those

He kills his own brother for power, “I find thee apt, And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed ... But know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown” (Act 1. Scene 5. Line 32-40). Claudius goes out of line by also getting married to his brother’s wife, who he killed, “Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen … Taken to wife. Nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms, which have freely gone with this affair along” (Act 1. Scene 2.Line 8-16). The Ghost refers to Claudius as "that incestuous, that adulterate beast" giving the thought that Claudius was jealous of his brother’s relationship with Gertrude and would have done anything to be with her which he did. Claudius plans out Hamlet’s death, “I bought an unction of a mountebank, so mortal that, but dip a knife in it, where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare… When in your motion you are hot and dry, as make your bouts more violent to that end, and that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping”(4.7.138-156). Claudius is now fully aware of hamlet’s thoughts of killing him and wants him gone in a way that doesn’t point to him because of the love and respect he has for