Hamlet Act Different With Others

Do you act differently around some people then by yourself? In Hamlet a lot of the characters appear to act one way around other characters, but in reality they act different. This will show how people act differently with other people, with themselves, and with their opinions of other people. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince Hamlet appears that he loves and appreciates his mother, but he actually thinks she is terrible and a bad person for doing what she did. In the quote “I shall in all best obey you, madam,” (I.ii.120). This shows how he will listen to her and respect her. Then in the soliloquy later he said, “Why she, even she- / O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer!”(I.ii.149-151) This shows how he feels about her for not being sad for a longer period of time and how he is upset that she got married that quickly. Clearly, Hamlet acts differently about his mother in public then in reality.
Then he said to Hamlet, “In filial obligation for some term / To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever / In obstinate condolement is a course / Of impious stubbornness.”(I.ii.91-94) This then shows that he said exactly the opposite of what he did to everyone else. When he was talking to everyone he said that they should have mourned King Hamlet’s death, but then he told Hamlet that he should not mourn his death. Clearly, this shows how Claudius appears one way to everyone, but then he is his actual way with Hamlet and by