wrong time, from the wrong person and with wrong inflection. Even if the words were true, not the words, but sympathy is what the grieving Hamlet needs; but this Hamlet does not receive, not from the court, not from his uncle, and most important, not from his own mother. Moreover, for those people, his grief over his father`s death is alien and unwelcome. This is shown in the beginning of the play, even before Hamlet sees the ghost, where Gertrude, ask him: “Good Hamlet, cast thy knighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids / Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know`st `tis commonall that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” After Hamlet’s respond, ”Ay, madam, it is common, if it be” she then asks: “Why seems it so particular with thee?” After this question, Hamlet revolts: “Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems.” (Guth, Hamlet, p. 796, 1.2.68-75).Throughout the play, hamlet is preoccupied with delay, and with the metaphysical Issue of the relation between thought and action, but as his own experience shows, “there is finally no action that can be commensurate with his grief, and it is Hamlet`s experience of grief, and his recovery from it, to which we ourselves respond most deeply.” (Downer, p.78) Hamlet is acting sometimes uncommonly during the play, but one must recognize that he is a young man who comes home from his university to find his father dead and his mother remarried to his father’s murderer. In the same time, the women he loves Sidorowicz-12rejects him, he is betrayed by his friends, and finally and most painfully, he is betrayed by his mother. In addition, the ghost of his father visits him and assures Hamlet of his love and ask for vengeance. Now...
