Asked by bob

Read the excerpt from Act V of Hamlet.

Gertrude: Sweets to the sweet: farewell! [Scattering flowers.]
I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;
I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
And not have strew'd thy grave.

Shakespeare included this plot event to help show that Gertrude, over the course of the play, has changed from

bitter to resigned.
depressed to indifferent.
happy to remorseful.
weary to energized.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
happy to remorseful.

Gertrude’s line and her act of scattering flowers show sorrow and regret; earlier in the play she appears content with her marriage to Claudius, but here she is mourning and remorseful.