the book Hamlet receives the news from the ghost that Claudius is the one that killed his father. This angers Hamlet and makes him think of his mother who married Claudius soon after his father’s death. Hamlet questions the morality of his mother. He believes that the passing of the father gave his mother an “increase of appetite” implying that instead of mourning, which typically lowers someone’s will to eat, that she is not saddened by the loss of her husband which is suggested by Hamlet stating
Hamlet often uses sarcasm in expressing his emotions against the corrupted people of the world and himself. He is frustrated about how his mother decided to marry his father’s cousin, Claudius, within a month of his father’s death. While talking to his friends Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo, he mocks about the timing between his father’s funeral and his mother’s remarriage by saying: “Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” (I.ii.33). To
In perusing Shakespeare’s dramatic play Hamlet and his portrayal of the degradation of human nature, my personal response has been shaped by Shakespeare’s thorough examination of the human condition. In particular, the development of the protagonist’s response to an unimaginable tragedy; his moral dilemma and honourable conscience in a depraved society, and self-exploration and pursuit of the significance of existence led me to believe that Hamlet renders complete reliance on fate as the only resolution