Question

What happened after Hamlet and Horatio met the two
grave-diggers? What advantage did Claudius think of
taking after what happened there?​

Answer 1

The Second Gravedigger exits as Hamlet and Horatio enter, and the First Gravedigger begins to sing a song on the topics of love and graves as he digs. He throws a skull (and later a second) up and out of the grave. Soon, it is revealed that the Gravedigger has been digging graves since the day Hamlet was born.

Claudius says that Hamlet's strange behavior has clearly not been caused by love for Ophelia and that his speech does not seem like the speech of insanity. He says that he fears that melancholy sits on something dangerous in Hamlet's soul like a bird sits on her egg, and that he fears what will happen when it hatches.