Question

read the excerpt from act v of hamlet. gertrude: sweets to the sweet: farewell! scattering flowers. i hopd thou shouldst have been my hamlets wife; i thought thy bride - bed to have deckd, sweet maid, and not have strewd thy grave. shakespeare included this plot event to help show that gertrude, over the course of the play, has changed from bitter to resigned. depressed to indifferent. happy to remorseful. weary to energized.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze Gertrude's character arc. Initially, Gertrude was involved in actions that showed a more carefree or "happy" (in terms of her earlier choices, though flawed) demeanor, but by Act V, her actions (scattering flowers, expressing remorse about Ophelia's grave and her hopes for Ophelia and Hamlet) show remorse. The other options don't fit: she's not bitter to resigned, depressed to indifferent, or weary to energized. The correct change is from happy (in her earlier, less remorseful state) to remorseful.

Answer:

happy to remorseful.