Act I - Hamlet's Perspective - Blog Assignment #13

Due to my respect and loyalty towards my father, his death has made me filled with grief. Although my outward attire serve as an indication of my grief, which many men can imitate, “I have that within which passeth show,” in addition to my “trappings and the suits of woe.”(1.2.85-86). Unfortunately, the grief that I possess over my father seems to be a scarce among the nobility at Elsinore. My father had treated my mother so well with true affection and protection. He was “so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.” (1.2.140-142). However, all of this love that my father had expressed to my mother throughout his life had made no impact on her. “Why, she would hang on him…yet, within a month”, she seems to have forgotten the important role that my father had played in her life, and she doesn’t even show any grief over the matter. (1.2.143-145). Not only did my mother not grieve over the passing of my father, “within a month…she married” my treacherous uncle. How a person can do such a thing, you may ask. (1.2.153-155). The weakness of my mother, a woman, led her to cling to my uncle immediately after my father’s death and never wince about the decision made. “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (1.2.146).  Also, it infuriates me how my father was further disrespected on his funeral day. In an attempt to save money, the funeral and the wedding between my uncle and my mother was arranged on the same day. My treacherous uncle, Claudius, was content because “The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.” (1.2.180-181). Did my father not deserve on having a day to grieve over him? Not only that, but was he also deserving of having an incestuous betrayal such as the wedding between his widowed wife and his own brother on the same day of his funeral? Good God, I say. However, more than anyone, I truly despise my uncle Claudius. He is an evil man on the search for power. When I met my father in Ghost form, I learned of all of the suffering my father has to go through in purgatory due to his inability to pray for forgiveness for his venial sins. His suffering is a result of Claudius’ betrayal. Claudius murdered my father by pouring a “juice of cursed Hebona” into my father’s ear as he was sleeping. (1.5.63). What an adulterous coward. I will not let my father die in vain, and I will make it certain that his “commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain.” (1.5.102-103). I will obey my father and kill my Uncle Claudius for the sake of revenge and justice!