What are Hamlets feelings on pages 74 and 75, and how are they expressed

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What are Hamlets feelings on pages 74 and 75, and how are they expressed?

Page 74 is the first time Hamlet is introduced to the audience and this first speech of his is very important as it sets the tone of the play and allows the audience to adjust to the type of genre it is going to be, it also shows how desperate Hamlet is and how distressed he truly is.

It tells the plot of the story to the audience and shows why Hamlet is so unhappy at his mother and uncle being married, and the time in which they did so.

We immediately begin to see how alone and confused Hamlet on what to do Hamlet really is, so much so almost a third of the speech is basically him contemplating suicide, which is strictly against his religion.

The main pillars in his life, the people he could relay on the most have betrayed him and he is unsure who he can trust and he is torn between taking vengeance mainly on his mother for dishonoring his fathers memory by marrying his uncle (obviously he doe's not yet know who killed his father or how he died) or to remain true to his mother, and turn the other cheek as his religion tell him to.
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He thinks that his mother and uncle have been too hasty in getting married, "But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two" and he has suspicions that they had something to do with his father's death. He seems very bitter towards his mother in particular and refers to her like a parasite. "Why, she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on" and his initial reaction, before he is visited by his father's ghost, is to take revenge on his mother. Which shows how he is feeling as ...

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