Tis Unmanly Grief In Hamlet

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After the death of Hamlet’s father, he started to wear black clothing for mourning. This seems to trouble his newly wedded mother, Gertrude. “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,” (1.2.70) she asks Hamlet to stop mourning for his father. But there may be another reasoning for this, his son still mourning just reminds her of the fact that she got remarried so quickly. Then dear old Claudius adds on and says, “‘Tis unmanly grief” (1.2.97) His father’ brother tells him to suck it up, everyone dies. Making it seem that he isn't even that affected by Old Hamlets death. Although, it seems to be more than just mourning. His black clothing could be a foreshadow of the darkness within Hamlet slowly coming to surface.
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In the beginning of the play, Hamlet was very bitter due to the fact that his
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He wishes that his, “... too too sullied flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.” (1.2.131-132) Hamlet wants his body to disintegrate and evaporate into thin air. The loss of his father, his inability to go back to school affected him so much that he would want to follow his father in the afterlife. In his most known soliloquy he says, “ When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?” (3.1.78-79).Before this line, Hamlet was stating all of the hardships that everyone goes through in life. This line sheds a light on an impelling question to the reader saying that, why should we go through all of these hardships if we could just end it easily with a knife?

4) Violence Instead of inflicting himself, Hamlet goes on and brings pain to others. The quote “A villain kills my father, and ,for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.” (3.379-85) Here, Hamlet has decided to slay Claudius who slayed his own brother, Old Hamlet. It is his duty as a son to get revenge on the man that killed his father and the reason for all his heartache.

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