Hamlet’swife;
/ I
thought
thy
bride-bed
to have
deck’d,
sweet
maid, /
And not
have
strew’d
thy
grave.”All
these
haveshown
her
affection
for
Ophelia.
Many
examples
have
demonstrated
her love
for her
son. In
Act Ⅳ,
Scene
ⅦKing
observed,“The
Queen his
mother,
Lives
almost by
his
looks.”In
Act Ⅲ,
Scene Ⅳ
Hamlet
said to
hismother“That
I
essentially
am not in
madness,
But mad in
craft.’Twere
good you
let him
