Leading off from the drama of the previous scene, the play confronts Claudius about his actions. Hamlet appears calm and in his domain. Hamlet in-fact seems to prove to everyone how he is not insane after all. As soon as the Queen and King enter he changes his state of mind and acts distraught and insane. However he also manages to send hurtful yet meaningless comments to Ophelia.

He does this by speaking with sexual references in his speech to her throughout their conversation. I find the sentence “It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge” a best way of displaying this.