How Is Hamlet Loving His Mother

Hamlet never stops loving his mother. In his own words he is “cruel only to be kind”. He views Gertrude as a woman who is blinded by her lust for Claudius. Acting on the assumption his mother is completely ignorant of Claudius’ deceitfulness, he seeks to protect her as well as can be done. To the young prince, nothing in life is more sinful than the incestuous marriage of his uncle and mother. Just like captain planet fanatically shields the environment from harm; Hamlet goes out of his way to absolve his mother from sin and protect her from what he sees as an unnatural union.
Gertrude sees life as something that is ever evolving and changing, and she able to move on from loss. She advises hamlet to do the same and “cast thy knighted color off” to
He never considers that the marriage may have been one of convince and not the product of his mother’s grieving and lust. Should Gertrude have declined the marriage, Claudius would have taken a different wife, a younger woman who would bear him children. Leaving hamlet no chance to ever rise to the throne of Denmark, and leaving his mother out of power as well. Ironically because he so condemns his mother’s incest, hamlet is attracted to his mother enough to never question her role in the murder of his father. It is interesting to notice in act 3 scene 4 after the murder of Polonius, the ghost of king hamlet chooses to appear to hamlet but not the woman he married. Maybe this indicates the ghost holds the knowledge of Gertrude’s role in his death. Or perhaps the ghost has no desire to speak to his wife after witnessing her gross new marriage. Although the ghost has hamlet comfort his mother, saying “Oh step between her and her fighting soul." which feels very different from the thoughts the ghost expressed about his former wife earlier in the show, calling her a “adulteress” whom heaven would judge, but not