There's not all that much to reveal. She's simple, naive, superficial, non-introspective, and easily influenced. She's a bauble, an ornament for a King. She's emotional and rather innocent. Indeed, the two women in the play, Gertrude and Ophelia, are very much alike, and what Hamlet says to Ophelia about women could apply to both of them (Act 3, scene 1):
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig, you amble, and you lisp; and nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Certainly not a very flattering point of view, but very close to the truth as it pertains to the two women in Hamlet's life.
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