Hamlet King Of Denmark

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Hamlet-King of Denmark

Hamlet is a young man in conflict with his emotions during the speech in Act 1 Scene 2. He feels emotionally devastated by the death of his father, the remarriage of his mother and the circumstances that now surround him. Hamlet feels torn between what he believes is morally right and good and what he feels would be the answer to relieving his angst-suicide. [“Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his Canon ‘gainst self-slaughter O’God, God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seems to me all the uses in this world”] Hamlet is furious with his mother, for being married. He finds it difficult to understand how she could have cried so many tears over the death of his father, and then so soon after that time, marry his Uncle. [“Why, she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on, and yet within a month-let me not thinkon ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman”]

The rub with Hamlet is that his mother and father seemed happily married, and then after the father’s death, she is taken so easily to marrying the Uncle. The fact that she married the Uncle does not seem as upsetting to Hamlet, as the fact that she did so soon after the father’s death. This to Hamlet is unacceptable. He cannot imagine his mother having the strength or desire to get married, if she felt as devastated by his father's death as he does. These feelings are difficult for Hamlet to work through, and it seems that somehow it would be a relief to know his mother too was devastated and sad. [“A little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father’s body, like Nioke, all tears, why she, even she, O’ God a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourned long-married with my Uncle”]

I think the biggest issue for Hamlet during this part of the play is that he is sad, angry and feels like his life as he knew it has been forever changed. He is angry with ...