With the new-found news of Ophelia’s madness Gertrude does not want to get involved, However Horatio eventually convinces Gertrude that Ophelia’s insanity would bring unwanted attention. After a ballad from Ophelia about her dead father and she is seeming ver senile with twitches and fractured nods. Gertrude begs for Ophelia to stop singing her heart out and she simply replies with “Indeed, without an oath i’ll make it end soon t’ill end it soon” which may be foreshadowing events that will happen in the future. She is confronted by the King and Queen but to only be shutdown. And the only possible reason for her dramatic change in emotions would have to be her fathers death. Laertes is enraged and wants to confide in Claudius and prompt a riot.