Compare And Contrast Gertrude's Relationship Of Hamlet Coping With His Father

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Gertrude seems quite concerned about how Hamlet is coping with the death of his father. She believes that he’s letting the death weigh too heavily on him, and suggests that he tries to have a better relationship with her new husband, Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius. Hamlet replies “But I have that within which passeth show / these are but the trappings and the suits of woe” (1, 2, 88-89). Hamlet is clearly suffering to come to terms with his father’s death, and his mother’s hasty remarriage to none other than his uncle angers him tremendously. He feels betrayed by her, and with his reply here, he’s telling her that the clothes he wears are but a mere hint of the actual grief that he’s feeling inside. The seriousness of his depressive state is conveyed

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