Hamlet and the Character of Gertrude Shakespeare's sinful woman in the tragedy Hamlet is called Gertrude. Wife of Claudio and mother of the prince, she is not chosen by the ghost for the protagonist's revenge. We consider his story in this essay. There is no doubt that Gertrude is a sinner in this play. In her book, Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, Lily B. Campbell describes the extent of Gertrude's sin and her punishment: And concerning the Queen's punishment as it unfolds throughout the play, there can be no doubt either. Her love for Hamlet, her pain, the evils that come so quickly that one tramples on the other, her awareness of having made a mistake, her final dismay are also those of those whose souls are alienated from God because of sin. . )Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks in "Making Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of 'Reading Psychoanalysis Into' Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet," comment on the defilement of the queen in Shakespeare's Hamlet: Hamlet, a play centered on the crisis of the male subject and his "radical confrontation with the sexualized maternal body", brings to the foreground male anxiety towards mothers, female sexuality and, therefore, sexuality itself. Obsessed with the corruption of the flesh, Hamlet is pathologically fixated on questions of his own origin and destination, questions that are activated by his irrepressible attraction to and disgust with his mother's "tainted" body. (1) At the beginning of the play, Hamlet's mother is apparently disturbed by the appearance of her son dressed in solemn black at the court meeting, and asks him: Good Hamlet, throw away your night colour, and let him.. ... middle of paper ......htmCampbell, Lily B. Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes. New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc, 1970. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Lectures and notes on Shakspere and other English poets. London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. p. 342-368. http://ds.dial.pipex.com/thomas_larque/ham1-col.htmJorgensen, Paul A. “Hamlet.” William Shakespeare: the tragedies. Boston: Twayne Publ., 1985. Page no. http://www.freehomepages.com/hamlet/other/jorg-hamlet.htmlLehmann, Courtney and Lisa S. Starks. "Making the Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of 'Reading Psychoanalysis' in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet." Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (May 2000): 2.1-24.Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1995. http://www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/hamlet/full.html No line nn.