'It is a weedless garden / That grows to seed. Things are of a vulgar and gross nature” (1.2.135-137). This metaphor used by Hamlet has some interpretations that can concern Gertrude or the entire state of Denmark. “It is a garden without weeds” (1.2.135) refers to how the State of Denmark is like the Garden of Eden before it was corrupted. Once a state of purity, Denmark was transformed into a tainted and corrupt nation through the death of King Hamlet and Gertrude's incestuous marriage. Or, on the other hand, Hamlet is talking about his mother. That she was once like the Virgin Mary, sexually intact and pure, like the Garden before it was violated. This play shows how atrocious Hamlet views King Claudius. Saying that Gertrude was like the Virgin Mary and the Garden of Eden, he insists that King Claudius is Satan or satanic. This metaphor portrays King Claudius as a satanic figure who breaches the Garden or his mother and corrupts her with his bed “stewed in