Prince Hamlet's Turmoil

             Hamlet is but a mere distraught son of murdered king and the queen of Denmark whom has been filled with the turmoil brought upon him by the appearance of his late father's ghost in the Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. His obsession and continued disturbance by the thoughts of his mother having entered a hasty marriage with his father's own murderer leaves him in a state of pure agony and distress in which he, throughout the play, let's lead him to his final destiny, his own dramatic and, by no better definition than that used to describe his mother's marriage, hasty death.
             In the passage during Act III in scene iv, we finally hear, in Hamlet's own pained words, what sins he feels his mother has committed. "Such an act/ that blurs the grace and blush of modesty", Hamlet begins his thoughts (Riverside, pp 1215). It is clear that by just the first three words that Hamlet feels that his mother Gertrude has done something deceitful. The "act" in which Hamlet describes is never truly spelled out to the audience/reader. Yet, we can decipher, just from the first three words, that he feels disgusted by this act. Hamlet's anger and disgust is so intense that he cannot come to terms with accepting what it is and, therefore, he cannot say what he accuses Gertrude of having done. Instead, Hamlet calls the act in which has been committed against his father King Hamlet as "such", and then continues by giving us his feelings, describing them is disguise within his own pained words, in lines 40-51 in The Riverside: Shakespeare.
             That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
             Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
             From the fair forehead of an innocent love
             And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows
             As false as dicers' oaths,... (Riverside, Act
             "The queen's insensibility on this subject makes her inca...

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