protagonist of the play and is portrayed as a very emotional soul, a

daring, brave character who has a bad and violent temper.

Hamlet is a very emotional young man. As we all know, his father's

death was a shock for him and he could not get over it. Claudius mentions

that Hamlet was taking the mourning of his father's death to extremes:

To give these mourning duties to your father; But you must know,

your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his, and the

survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do

The King is telling Hamlet that death is only natural and that Hamlet's

father lost his father too. He is informing Hamlet that he is mourning

too much for his deceased father and he should try to get over it. Another

example of Hamlet's emotions getting the better of him can be seen when he

is reminiscing his father's death. Hamlet says, "...How stand I then,/That

have father killed, a mother stained,...2". He is asking himself what kind

of a person he is if he can allow his father to be murdered and his mother

to be married so soon after his father's d

meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia goes sour:

hell itself should gape And bid me hold my peace. 4

things according to her own fancy and then acts as if her own wilfulness is

of his father's spirit. Another example of his bravery is portrayed when

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