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https://vine.co/v/OpT72Y5QZpL By: Kourtney Woodhouse || With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: […] (1.2.6)
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This quote by Hamlet shows his anger with his mother for not mourning his father long enough to please him. This is essential to the development of family in the play because throughout the story Hamlet is mad at his mother for moving on so quickly from his father. Hamlet tries to hide his anger for his mother because he does not want his uncle to discipline him. He no longer feels like he is a part of this family now that his father has passed and his mother has found a new husband. The connection between Hamlet and his uncle is blood, but he does not believe that his uncle cares for him or his mother properly. The tension builds in the story when Hamlet plots to kill his uncle after the ghost of his father tells him that his uncle is the reason he is dead. He can’t believe that his mother married his uncle so quickly, it becomes hard for Hamlet to believe that his parents had a happy marriage if his mother was able to throw it away all too quickly. The sixth line is Hamlet expressing that his father and his uncle could not be more different. Their personalities were the complete opposite, his uncle cares only for himself where as his father always put others before himself.

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