Which Statement Best Describes Gertrude’S Development Between Act 1 And Act 4?

Gertrude is the Queen of king Hamlet and mother of Prince Hamlet. She remarried Hamlet 's uncle Claudius just after 2 hours of her first husband's death. By hastily marrying and refusing to trust her son, Hamlet, Shakespeare portrayed Gertrude as a hypocrite and a weakling.
The young prince, Hamlet, never seems to stop grieving the loss of king Hamlet, yet he seems to preoccupy himself with the mission of avenging his father’s death. Hamlet is told by Gertrude in act 1, Scene 2, that he shouldn’t wear ebony mourning habiliments anymore and that he should look more jubilant. She exhorts him that, as if he were probing for his father in the dirt, he can not keep his attention downwards. She tells him that all human beings have to die. The queen advices her mourning son by saying ,“He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave – By laborsome petition, and at last – Upon his will I sealed my hard consent.I do beseech you, give him leave to go.” This quote denotes Gertrude’s efforts to culminate Hamlet’s mourning in even the little things like his outfit culls that reflect his doleful feelings. The queen doesn’t sympathise with her son’s dolefulness, and she doesn’t optate him to show denotements of mourning although it’s only been 2 months since King Hamlet’s death. Perhaps her woebegoneness towards the loss she feels makes her uncomfortable. Further, in a thoroughly different way, Queen Gertrude endeavors to deal with her husband’s loss by not dealing with it. She swiftly went on after her husband died and espoused his apostatizing brother, king Claudius. She does not appear to be troubled by the death of her husband at all, even reflecting on it by asking her mourning son,“Thou know’st ‘tis common- all that lives must die…”. This quote betokens two things: that Gertrude does not mourn the loss of her husband and that she does not sympathise with her already mourning son.
Since Gertrude moved on quickly, Hamlet’s understanding of that situation was that he and his father were not a major part in her life, which was shown through how quickly she moved on from King Hamlet and her lack of care towards her son. Throughout the play, Gertrude has put her needs above her son’s, in a family where people truly love each other, a mother would sacrifice anything in the world just to give her child what they need or want. She married Claudius because she loved the position he held and she wanted to maintain her position as Queen. Surprisingly, Gertrude and Claudius are a good match for each other because they are both inadequate and incompetent beings to the people around them.