Why does Gertrude soon cry for help shortly after Hamlet's arrival in her chamber?

When Hamlet enters Gertrude's chamber, she starts to scold her son. Why does she soon cry out for help? His angry reply frightens her.

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Why does Gertrude cry for help?

In Gertrude's room, Polonius hides behind a tapestry. Hamlet's entrance so alarms Gertrude that she cries out for help.

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Why does Gertrude call for help?

Why does Gertrude call for help? The beginning is a disaster due to Hamlet's anger with his mother. The queen is so scared of Hamlet's emotions that she cries out for help...and Polonius answers, immediately giving up the reuse.

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What does Gertrude say to Hamlet when she summons him to her chamber?

Hamlet asks why she has called for him, she responds by saying, "Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended." Gertrude is referring to Claudius Hamlet's uncle and now step-father.

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Why does Gertrude call out for help when Hamlet talks to her in her bedroom?

Hamlet murders Polonius, accuses his mother, and sees the ghost again. The queen attempts to speak with her son, but is frightened by his wild behavior and calls out for help.

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When Hamlet enters Gertrude's chamber she starts to scold her son why does she soon cry out for help?

When Hamlet enters Gertrude's chamber, she starts to scold her son. Why does she soon cry out for help? His angry reply frightens her.

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Is Gertrude in love with Hamlet?

Gertrude describes her love for Hamlet when she asks him not to return to Wittenberg. When she shares with Ophelia her hope that the young woman would have married her Hamlet, she divulges her wish for his happiness.

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What does Hamlet confront Gertrude about in her chambers?

He accuses Gertrude of lustfulness, and she begs him to leave her alone. King Hamlet's Ghost reappears to Hamlet, but only Hamlet can see him.

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What does Gertrude in her chamber Hamlet?

He shows her a picture of the dead king and a picture of the current king, bitterly comments on the superiority of his father to his uncle, and asks her furiously what has driven her to marry a rotten man such as Claudius.

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Was Gertrude innocent or guilty?

But other interpretations, in both stage productions and paintings, suggest Gertrude's guilty knowledge of the murder, and Hamlet suspects her as well as Claudius; Hamlet's "mousetrap" therefore sets out to capture the conscience of a king and a queen.

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What does Gertrude say before dying?

O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. [Dies.]

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What does Gertrude do after the play?

Gertrude is not given much autonomy in Hamlet, but makes two major decisions: She marries Claudius, and she drinks the poisoned cup of wine. Her actions and choices though do leave the reader open to interpret the reasoning behind her actions.

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Who is Gertrude truly loyal to?

Gertrude's Loyalty to Hamlet

Despite all that happens, Gertrude chooses to remain loyal to Hamlet. At the end of act three, he reveals to Gertrude that he is only mad in craft, not for real, and he askes her not to sleep with Claudius anymore.

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Where did Gertrude go cry the beloved country?

Before the beginning of the novel, Gertrude's husband left her with her small son to go work in the mines, and stopped writing letters home. Gertrude went to Johannesburg to look for him and disappeared in turn.

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Did Gertrude help Hamlet?

The final Act, in which she is clearly aware that the wine is poisoned, sees her sacrifice herself to save Hamlet.

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What happens to Gertrude at the end of Cry the Beloved Country?

Gertrude promises to give up her immoral ways and even claims, at one point, that she wants to be nun. But, she eventually ends up running away from Mrs. Lithebe's house and leaving her young son behind.

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Does Hamlet want to sleep with Gertrude?

Hamlet delays killing Claudius because Claudius represents Hamlet's innermost desires to sleep with his mother Gertrude.

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Who visits Hamlet and Gertrude in bed chamber?

Act 3, Scene 4

In Gertrude's private chambers, Polonius and the queen hear Hamlet approach. Polonius quickly hides behind a curtain, planning to eavesdrop on the conversation between mother and son. When Hamlet enters, he's in such a rage that Gertrude cries for help.

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Who does Gertrude marry in Hamlet?

Gertrude's marriage to Claudius took away Hamlet's chance to rule Denmark, but only temporarily. Claudius says to Hamlet when he tries to console him, “You are the most immediate to our throne” (1.2. 313).

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What 3 things does Hamlet ask Gertrude to do?

Hamlet urges her to “throw away the worser part of it,” repent, stay away from Claudius, and “throw [the devil] out” of her life. He begs her not to let Claudius “tempt [her] again to bed”—or get her to tell him anything about what has transpired between Hamlet and Gertrude tonight.

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Who kills Hamlet?

Hamlet dies on-stage, stabbed by Laertes with a blade poisoned by Claudius (it seems to be the poison that kills him, since he takes a while to die).

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How does Queen Gertrude respond to Hamlet's accusations?

Gertrude admits her soul is black with spots. She believes Hamlet is mad because he addresses the Ghost in apostrophe, and promises to not have sex with Claudius.

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Who falls in love with Hamlet?

Ophelia is Polonius' daughter and Laertes' sister. Hamlet has been in love with her for a while before the play starts and has given her several gifts during their courtship until her father warns her away from him and tells her not to see him anymore.

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Does Hamlet kiss his mother?

During "The Closet scene", Hamlet and his mother kiss.

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Who is the lady love of Hamlet?

Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, one of King Claudius' closest friends. She is described as a beautiful young woman, and she is also the love interest of the main character in the story Hamlet. Her love for Hamlet and her loyalty to her father creates friction and leads to tragedy in Ophelia's life.

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