Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Hamlet is the protagonist of the play and is portrayed as a very emotional soul, a daring, brave character who has a bad and violent temper. Hamlet is a very emotional young man. As we all know, his father's death was a shock for him and he could not get over it. Claudius mentions that Hamlet was taking the mourning of his father's death to extremes: To give these mourning duties to your father; But you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. 1 The King is telling Hamlet that death is only natural and that Hamlet's father lost his father too. He is informing Hamlet that he is mourning too much for his deceased father and he should try to get over it. Another example of Hamlet's emotions getting the better of him can be seen when he is reminiscing his father's death. Hamlet says, "...How stand I then,/That have father k!

illed, a mother stained,...2". He is asking himself what kind of a person he is if he can allow his father to be murdered and his mother to be married so soon after his father's death to his uncle. This shows us that he is

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