Question 8 • *HSA 26-27 English IV A -IC
The player describes Hecuba’s overwhelming grief after her husband, Priam, is killed. Hamlet compares that powerful display of mourning with Gertrude’s quick remarriage after his father’s death, which makes Hecuba seem like the ideal grieving widow. So the allusion highlights the contrast between Hecuba’s grief and Gertrude’s apparent lack of it.
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