HAMLET BLOG ASSIGNMENT #1
Write from the perspective of
the character (Claudius, King of Denmark), but BE SURE TO USE 5 PIECES OF TEXT EVIDENCE from Act 1 to support your point.
Lately, Hamlet has been moping around the castle grieving about his father's death. I have been trying to tell him that bad things happen and life moves on but he keeps on acting like a little girl and expressing his "unmanly grief" and "impious stubbornness" on a day to day basis (1.2.94). I am trying to spread positive vibes throughout the castle with my marriage to Gertrude but that boy won't stop blabbering about his father's death. Doesn't he have more important things to do?
I will concede that it is "sweet and commendable" to mourn about his father but he must understand that his "father lost a father; That father lost, lost his" (1.2.87-90). In fact, we have all lost someone we loved but that does not give us a reason to trap ourselves in a world of sadness for an extended period of time. Besides, behaving like a little girl and grieving is a sin and is "most incorrect to heaven" (1.2.95) and I cannot have the person I have to now call my son committing sins.
I have tried to comfort him by assuring him that he is the "most immediate to our throne" and that he will become king once I pass but this still does not placate him (1.2.109). I have even persuaded him to stay at home and not go back to Wittenberg for college so that he can stay in the "cheer and comfort of our eye" (1.2.116). Despite my efforts to show him my love and kindness, he does not seem to appreciate this and is still trapped in his world of sadness and grief. It's something that I as a father will never understand.
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