In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Gertrude’s relationship with Hamlet is somewhat dependent, because Hamlet resisted her marriage with King Hamlet’s brother Claudius after he murdered the King. Hamlet shows his lack of understanding saying to his friend Horatio and yet, within a month - let me not think on’t. - Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month! Or ere those shoes were old with which she follow’d my poor father’s body, like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she -O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn’d longer, - married with my uncle, my father’s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules. Within a month? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good; but break my heart, for I must hold my tongue! With these words Hamlet expresses that he sees his mother as an example of the weakness of women and constantly hurt in his reflections of how quickly she remarried. At the same time Gertrude reveals no guilt