f sitting next to the Queen repulses him. The King watches the play in awe, and near the end, he rises and yells for the lights. It is assumed he is now aware of Hamlet's knowledge of his guilt and Hamlet can be sure of the validity of the ghost's story. Gertrude's unsuspicious mood, until her husband's outburst, suggests that she is innocent of any part in the murder of her late husband. This realization comes as a relief to readers and most probably to Hamlet as well. This also says something about the marriage and overall relationship of Gertrude and Claudius. It is now known that their union was not completely honest wherein they could confide in one another entirely. Gertrude's eventual downfall is partly due, as with Ophelia, to love lost. Gertrude's end comes because Claudius's love is not strong enough to keep her from her death. Even though his mother is innocent of that particular sin, Hamlet was given hints from his father's ghost about how Gertrude and Claudius were having an affair bef
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