Polonious tells Gertrude he'll listen from a hiding place in her chamber to try and fathom what Hamlet is saying Hamlet hears him and kills polonious, crying " a rat, a rat!" and chops up his body, so he's shipped off to england but he finds some letters from claudius saying to kill him to r&g and so he escapes, and because fortinbras is marching for revenge of his fathers death he feels like a bit of a cop out and so therefore decides to up his game with the whole avenging his father thing.
Ophelia goes mad and starts singing bawdy songs, laertes comes back and all the people decide they want him for king. He is also desperate to avenge his fathers death.
Ophelia and Hamlets madness,
Gertrudes dilemma: Her son, or her husband?
There's not enough here on the tragic aspects of the play. You mention gertrude's dilemma. How does this connect to Hamlet's dilemma? Why is this tragic?
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