Act III, Scene IV has fueled much speculation and many psychoanalytic perspectives on Hamlet and his Oedipus complex. The scene is set in a closet, typically a private room in a castle while a bedroom was intended to receive visitors. The convention since the late 19th century was to stage this scene in Gertrude's bedroom. resulting in further speculation that Hamlet harbored sexual desires towards his mother. If Gertrude received him in her closet, she treated him more intimately than a son. In the scene, Hamlet enters and confronts Gertrude, perhaps wanting her to confirm his knowledge of Claudius' crime, to provide further evidence of his guilt or whether she was an accessory to the crime. Hamlet urges his mother not only to repent, but asks her to avoid Claudius's bed (specifically not to let Claudius excite her by caressing her neck, not to remain between his sperm-infested sheets, and other shockingly graphic details). It is especially this part of the scene that led audiences and readers to agree with Sigmund Freud's analysis of Hamlet's desires. Sigmund Freud wrote that H...