Why did Gertrude marry Claudius so quickly?
In this regard, did Claudius marry Gertrude for power?
🤥🤐🤧 Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. She was married to the murdered King Hamlet (represented by the Ghost in the play) and has subsequently wed Claudius, his brother.
🤥🤐🤧 Also Know, was Gertrude in on the death of the king? Gertrude (Hamlet) In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents her marrying her husband's brother Claudius after he murdered the king (young Hamlet's father, King Hamlet).
🤥🤐🤧 Similarly, you may ask, did Claudius really love Gertrude?
🤥🤐🤧 Claudius's love for Gertrude may be sincere, but it also seems likely that he married her as a strategic move, to help him win the throne away from Hamlet after the death of the king.
🤥🤐🤧 Did Gertrude know about Claudius?
🤥🤐🤧 Campbell said to me, "The point about Gertrude in the closet scene is not that she didn't know Claudius was a murderer, but that she doted on him so much that she wouldn't have minded if he had been." This seems to me feminine and shrewd (Leavenworth, 166).