FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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sadness remains long after a person seems to be mourning
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Hamlet will wear black until he stops feeling grief
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He knows that Claudius killed his father
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Claudius and Gertrude are only pretending to grieve
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Detailed explanation-1: -By his comment in Scene 2 that the outer signs of grief are “actions that a man might play, ” Hamlet is implying that. Claudius and Gertrude pretend sorrow but feel none.
Detailed explanation-2: -Claudius Lines 87-117 Claudius tells Hamlet that while grief for his father is appropriate, it’s inappropriate for him to continue grieving for so long. He tells him it is weak and unmanly to wallow in this grief. He tells Hamlet to think of him as being a new father to him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gertrude and Claudius encourage him to cease grieving and to get on with life. Gertrude asks Hamlet why he seems so particularly affected by his father’s death, and Hamlet snaps at her that, unlike his mother and her husband, he has no pretenses. “Seems, Madam?
Detailed explanation-4: -What is Claudius suggesting about grief and its relationship to duty? Claudius’s use of phrases like “mourning duties” (line 92) and “filial obligation” (line 95) treats grief not as an emotion or feeling that may last for some time, but as a duty to be fulfilled that comes to a natural end.