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Kevin Wong

Pd#5

Act 1 Scene 2
“Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father.
But you must know your father lost a father,.....”

P-”Tis unmanly grief” is used by the king in an attempt to comfort the grieving Hamlet.

E-The king states that this grieving over his father is an “incorrect will to heaven” and
that he should cease doing so.

T-He uses a reference to heaven.

E-By using a reference to heaven when talking to Hamlet, the king hopes that he will be
able to coax Hamlet out of his sad state.

R-I feel that the king tries to use heaven as a way to scare Hamlet into ceasing his grief
over his deceased father.

P-”Fie, ‘tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature” is used by the
king to further comfort Hamlet.

E-The mentioning of heaven, the dead, and nature being grouped together with grief
over a deceased father is used.

T-Using the supernatural

E-By using the supernatural, the king hopes to coax Hamlet out of his sad state.

R-I feel that using the supernatural in that way is like the other line “incorrect will to
heaven,” in that it will try to scare Hamlet into ceasing his mourning.
Kevin Wong
Pd#5

P-The king tries to tell Hamlet that even the first corpse was eventually not mourned
over anymore.

E-”From the first corpse will he that died today”

T-Reference to Abel

E-Using a reference to Abel was an attempt to stop Hamlet from grieving anymore.

R- I feel that using Abel is a way of trying to tell Hamlet ‘Oh look, your father died, well
other people died as well, so why aren’t other people mourning them to this day?’

P-The king tells Hamlet that he should move on and think of the king as his father now.

E-”We pray you, throw to earth This unprevailing woe and think of us As of a father...”

T-The king uses

E-

R- I feel that the king is being self centered in stating that he is the replacement of
Hamlet’s father and that he should forget about him and move on to the next.

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