The scene starts off with Polonius and Gertrude awaiting Hamlet arrival in the Gertrude chamber. Polonius reveals to us that his plan is to hide behind the curtain to examine Hamlet insanity and threatening behaviour. Polonius urges the queen to be as harsh as possible with hamlet to get the real behaviour out of him, the queen agrees and Polonius hides behind the curtain
Hamlet enters the room and is immediately rude by asking why she sent for him in a offensive manner, the queen replies by saying that he has deeply offended his father which is replied by hamlet saying his father by marrying his uncle, his tone become more and more abusive until Gertrude cries out for her life and Polonius calls out for help, Hamlet suspects this could be Claudius and stabs the curtain which kills off Polonius in the process. hamlet then says “Nay, I know not: / Is it the king?”, the queen replies by saying what he just did was a rash and bloody deed. Hamlet replies by stating that it is almost as rash and bloody as murdering the king and marrying his brother. The queen at this point being understandably offended and shocked questions him on believing that she killed the king. After all this occurs the Ghost arrive once again to tell hamlet that he is going through this in the completely wrong way, after all his motive is to kill his uncle and he is shouting at the queen and killed Polonius which is not what he should be doing. Hamlet asks if the queen can see him and she says she can’t which leads to her believing once again that he is mad
Hamlet ends off by saying that he has to go to england to get away from this situation but will finish the job and kill the king and the scene ends with hamlet dragging Polonius out off the chamber.
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