In “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude is portrayed as a selfish woman. She does not understand the grief that Hamlet is going through out the whole play. I believe throughout the play Shakespeare gives out hint that Gertrude is involved in Claudius’s crime. I believe that Gertrude was aware of the murder of Hamlet’s father, because why else would she marry Claudius less than month after the King’s death. As wife and the mother of Hamlet she should have mourn the death of her husband longer and never married Claudius. The marriage between Claudius and Gertrude is an awful sin in the church eyes, but it does not seem to bother her. There had to be a connection between Claudius and Gertrude before the death of the king