- Hamlet's death is recent, "green"
- grief + joy, cognitive dissodance; Claudius states life must continue
- Gertrude marries Claudius= continuity of state
- Hamlet's first line: "A little more than kin and less than kind" doesn't like the idea of sharing the same blood with Claudius
- Claudius insults Hamlet in more than one occasion (grieving is unmanly, sinful)
- Hamlet maintains his calm manner and tactfully returns the insults
- Claudius allows Laertes to continue his studies, doesn't allow Hamlet to return to Wittenberg
- Gertrude sides with Claudius
- Hamlet's monologue gives readers insight to true feelings and thoughts
- outburst of anger, frustration, indignation; at one point asks the point of it all
- demonstrates his admiration towards his father and his hate towards Claudius and his mother
- accuses and insults his mother of being weak and disloyal
- however he understands that much self-discipline is required
- Horatio and Marcellus arrive bearing news of his ghost father
- we observe a different Hamlet, one who asks direct questions and seems to show no emotions
- able to demonstrate different facets of personality according to each situation
- diplomatic, emotional, and direct (3 different Hamlets)
- Hamlet acts intentionally, he is clever and disciplined
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