>...it is unfair to suggest that she had good alternatives to
>marrying Claudius....
Of course she had an alternative, and her failure to adopt it is the unspoken subtext to Hamlet's hostility toward her. She could, and in his view should, have proclaimed herself regent to ensure the legitimate succession--ie., Hamlet junior. Instead she married the usurper, like Klytemnaestra, though without either the guilt of participation in the murder or the justification of revenge for Iphigenaia.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64