Act III, scene IV, has fueled numerous speculations and numerous psychoanalytic perspectives on Hamlet and his Oedipal complex. The scene takes place in a closet, typically a private room in a castle while a bedroom was intended to receive visitors, the convention since the end of the 19th century was to stage this scene in Gertrude's bedroom; which gives rise to further speculation that Hamlet has 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 her knowledge of Claudius' crime, to provide further proof of her guilt or whether she was complicit in the crime. Hamlet not only urges his mother to repent, but also asks her to avoid Claudius' bed (specifically telling her not to let Claudius arouse her by caressing her neck, not to stay in his semen-infested sheets and other shocking details). It was mainly this part of the scene that made the audience and readers agree with Sigmund Freud's analysis of Hamlet's desires. Sigmund Freud wrote that H...