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Claudius and Gertrude's relationship is destructive because they married in haste, and Claudius uses her for his own ends without her knowledge or consent.
Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of William Shakespeare's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in medieval Denmark, as depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae Danicae.
- John Updike
- 2000
Does she intentionally betray Hamlet to Claudius, or does she believe that she is protecting her son’s secret? These questions can be answered in numerous ways, depending upon one’s reading of the play.
- Summary: Act IV, Scene I
- Summary: Act IV, Scene II
- Analysis: Act IV, Scenes I–II
Frantic after her confrontation with Hamlet, Gertrude hurries to Claudius, who is conferring with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. She asks to speak to the king alone. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exit, she tells Claudius about her encounter with Hamlet. She says that he is as mad as the sea during a violent storm; she also tells Claudius that Ha...
Elsewhere in Elsinore, Hamlet has just finished disposing of Polonius’s body, commenting that the corpse has been “safely stowed” (IV.ii.1). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear and ask what he has done with the body. Hamlet refuses to give them a straight answer, instead saying, “The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body” (IV.ii....
The short first scene of Act IV centers around Gertrude’s betrayal of her son, turning him in to the king after having promised to help him. While she does keep her promise not to reveal that Hamlet was only pretending to be insane, the immediate and frank way in which she tells Claudius about Hamlet’s behavior and his murder of Polonius implies th...
Dive deep into John Updike's Gertrude and Claudius with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
Gertrude is the queen who marries her late husband’s younger brother much too soon to satisfy the questioning spirit of her only child, the well-educated, skeptical, cynical,...
Claudius compares Hamlet to a “foul disease,” but while Gertrude takes Claudius’s words to implicate Hamlet’s madness, Claudius is actually referring to Hamlet as a liability because the young prince knows the truth about Claudius’s murderous ascent to the throne. Active Themes.
