her and says, "Mother, thou hast my father much offended." (3.4.11), meaning Hamlet I. After striking out at the arras and killing Polonius, who was spying there, he proceeds to tell her how he feels about her marriage to his uncle, that it more or less disgusts him. He tells her that Claudius murdered his father and that she should repent for her part in it all. "Confess yourself to heaven, repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread compost on the weeds to make them ranker." (3.4.153-156). He tells her that if he seems mad it is all an act. This is another place where Hamlet indicates that he is not at all, in reality, insane. He says to her, "That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft." (3.4.191-192) He is telling her that he is not in fact mad, but only using his madness as a "craft", as a way of achieving another goal he does not out rightly state to her. It is never really apparent that she truly believes him. She is supposed to tell Claudius the entirety of her and Hamlet's conversation and for whatever reason she does not. All she real
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