Hamlet Reflection Essay

Act one, scene two of Hamlet takes place the morning after Horatio and the guards see the ghost, which they make a plan to keep quiet about until they can tell hamlet. King Claudius gives a speech to his new people, explaining his recent marriage to Gertrude, his brother’s wife and Hamlets mother. Claudius says that he mourns his brother’s death but plans to balance Denmark’s mourning with the delight of his marriage to the queen. Turning to Prince Hamlet, Claudius asks why “the clouds still hang” upon him, which is Claudius’s way of asking hamlet” why are you still sad about your dad’s death?” .As Hamlet is still wearing black mourning clothes Gertrude urges him to cast off his “nightly color,” (the depressing choice of clothing) but he replies bitterly that his inner sadness is so strong that his outside appearance is a mirroring his inner feelings. Claudius goes on to tell hamlet that all fathers die, and all sons must lose their fathers. Claudius says When a son loses a father, it’s a sons duty to morn their father but to morn to long is quit inappropriate.

After saying this to hamlet, Claudius says that he does not wish for Hamlet to return to school at Wittenberg (where he had went to school before his father’s died).Gertrude doesn’t agree with her new husband,she

He balances both in a way that is quite interesting to watch. But despite Claudius’s efforts, the thought of the idea seems superficial. This is because of the fact that the idea of the balance of Claudius feelings is unnatural. The question arises, how is it possible to balance sorrow for a brother’s death with happiness for having married a dead brother’s wife? Claudius’s speech Was sweet and to the point and as the morning process starts to ease for thing kings people you see Claudius show less and less care for his dead brother whose wife he just