Question

Claudius is critical of Hamlet in the excerpt below. What are his criticisms of Hamlet and the reasoning behind those criticisms?

King: ’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; That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious° sorrow: but to persever In obstinate condolement° is a course Of impious stubbornness; ’tis unmanly grief; It shows a will most incorrect° to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschool’d: For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing° to sense, Why should we in our peevish opposition Take it to heart? Fie! ’tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd; whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse° till he that died to-day, "This must be so." We pray you, throw to earth This unprevailing° woe, and think of us As of a father.

Answer 1

Cladius criticised Hamlet because He wanted Him to stop bringing up his father and Lamenting the death of His father. His reason for His criticism was because He was afraid that the more Hamlet talked about His father, The more likely people were to look into His death.

Step-by-step explanation:

Claudius Had been lamenting the death of His father for some time and this made king Claudius uncomfortable. This made Claudius to give Him a speech to try and get him to stop talking about his father. King Claudius is very good with words as well as manipulative. He told Hamlet to be happy for his father, for He is now in heaven in His statement That his grief " shows a will most incorrect to heaven." but later in the play it was found out that the ghost is not in heaven but instead sufferring in "sulf'rous and tormenting flames.