How Gertrude's Life Changes In Hamlet

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Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark and as the titles suggests the main character in this tragic play, is the only son of Queen Gertrude and the recently deceased King Hamlet. Hamlet is consumed by grief from the death of his beloved father. However, his feelings are dominated with anger due to his mother re-marrying in just a few weeks after his father’s death and even more so that she married Hamlet’s uncle, the deceased king’s brother, Claudius. Hamlet is deeply offended by his mother’s actions believing them to be dishonorable and incestuous. Realizing that his life is forever changed and there is little he can do about it, he becomes disillusioned and depressed. “Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into