Gertrude: An Abhorrent Character

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I believe that Gertrude is clever. Many people understood the phrase "adulterate beast" and thought of it as proof that Gertrude was Claudius’s lover before Hamlet 's father had died. It will actually make the Queen an abhorrent character in a further level than what Shakespeare had intended, also the rest of the play doesn’t this particular adultery. Claudius according to King Hamlet’s (Ghost) has definitely contaminated his beloved queen, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that Claudius did it before Hamlet 's father has died. If she actually were an adulteress, she must have had a hand in Claudius’s murder, which also makes her the play 's villainess and not its child-like victim. However, when Hamlet confronts his mother in her closet