Journal Entry # 2 Why does the fact the Claudius does not stop Gertrude from drinking the wine condemn him even more in the reader's eyes?

I think Claudius never loved Gertrude, he just lusted after her. I don't condemn Gertrude for marrying him though. I think that she was so used to being loved that after her husband died she didn't know what to do with her self. Then Claudius is there; someone to love her and she just takes the offer. I think that when Hamlet confronts Gertrude she realizes what she lost, and what she has accepted. After that she loves Hamlet even more. Her ties to her son are much stronger than the ties to her new husband, and I think they always were.