No, one more thing. None of the characters knows Gertrude's future, as Claudius speaks. Claudius, with his misuse of the word, has accidentally spoken an "omen." It's a prediction of Gertrude's future, that none of them realizes when Claudius says it. Claudius said an omen, without meaning to, and he didn't know it, and he will never know he did that. The gods laugh. | No, one more thing. None of the characters knows Gertrude's future, as Claudius speaks. Claudius, with his misuse of the word, has accidentally spoken an "omen." It's a prediction of Gertrude's future, that none of them realizes when Claudius says it. Claudius said an omen, without meaning to, and he didn't know it, and he will never know he did that. The gods laugh. |