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Hamlet's state of mind

We can conclude several states of Hamlet’s mind through his soliloquy in Act I Scene II. He had just learned that his mother married a man (King Claudius) in less than two months after Old Hamlet’s death. He could not believe and accept the fact that his mother recovered so quickly and married another man as if nothing had really happened:
“But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two…
Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month – Let me not think on’t”
(Act I, Scene II, Line 142 – 150)
He was stunned by her mother...

Posted by: William Katz

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