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Lonely Hamlet   Hamlets decision to keep the murder of his father a secret to himself, on with the betrayals of many of his close friends and family, leads to his eventual downfall. If someone was there for him, whether it was his mother Gertrude, his female child Ophelia, or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, maybe his timeless death could have been prevented. Instead, his mother side of meats with Claudius who wants to decimate him, Ophelia wont go behind her father, Polonius, top to be with him and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern go behind Hamlets back and spy on him for Claudius.     Gertrudes blindness to the whole situation is sickening. How she marries the brother of her former husband even out after he kills him and never knows the right is beyond me. She never cared nigh how her son felt before or after she married Claudius. She didnt even wait very long after her husband died to outsmart married again ( I ii 180-181. Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The fune ral baked meats did coldly confer forth the marriage tables.). Therefore she is either a very slow, naïve woman or a very evil, coldhearted one. For someone to side with a individual even after their own son has told them that the person theyre with has murdered their former lover is absolute lunacy ( leash iv 29-30. A bloody deed- almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry his brother.). Not knowing the truth in the first place is one thing, but turning your back on your own flesh and blood is another. Therefore without his mother on his side, Hamlet has lost all the family in his life that could have helped him incur through his terrible time and he sinks lower than ever before.     Ophelias obedience towards her untrusting father is indescribable ( I iii 101-103. adherence? Pooh You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such doubtful circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?). Why a giving woman would listen to her father and no t help the man of her dreams in his time of need is disheartening. A mans girlfriend should be there for him when a family member passes away, no matter what. If she had been with him on the jut out to kill Claudius and knew about his fathers ghost who told Hamlet that Claudius was the one that murdered him, than uncomplete one of them would have went crazy.