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.
In Gertrude's room, Polonius hides behind a tapestry. Hamlet's entrance so alarms Gertrude that she cries out 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. [Dies.]
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.
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.
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.
The final Act, in which she is clearly aware that the wine is poisoned, sees her sacrifice herself to save Hamlet.
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.
Hamlet delays killing Claudius because Claudius represents Hamlet's innermost desires to sleep with his mother Gertrude.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
During "The Closet scene", Hamlet and his mother kiss.
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.