Read the excerpt from Act V of Hamlet.Gertrude: Sweets to the sweet: farewell! [Scattering flowers.] I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave.

Gertrude first speaks lovingly and hopefully, imagining Ophelia as Hamlet’s bride and saying she would have decorated their wedding bed with flowers. Instead, she is scattering flowers on Ophelia’s grave, and her words express sorrow and regret. This shift is from happy to remorseful, so C is correct.

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