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.

shakespeare included this plot event to show that gertrude has changed

a. bitter to resigned.

b. depressed to indifferent.

c. happy to remorseful.

d. weary to energized.