He is trapped in Elsinore, a city where it seems that people are willing to do anything to gain prestige and power. He believes that everything in the world should be good and fair, so he does not understand the corrupt actions of people. He eventually comes to the conclusion that “it is a non-weedy garden that grows to produce seeds. Gross and gross things in nature simply possess it. Let it come to this” (I.2.135-137). The reader also sees a moment where Hamlet comes to terms with the world when he tells Rosencrantz that the world has many “bounds, wards, and dungeons.” Denmark is one of the worst” (II.2. 132-133). For example, his mother's marriage to his uncle is something he doesn't understand. The reader can tell that the marriage obviously upsets Hamlet when he mutters under his breath, "a little more than kin and less than kind" (I.2.65). Speaking of his mother, he states that within a month, “before the salt of the most unjust tears had left the redness of her sore eyes, she was married” (II.2.154-156). Hamlet also comes to the conclusion that “laying with such dexterity incestuous sheets” is not good and will not have any good result (II.2.156-157). The reader is also given insight into Hamlet's disgust at his mother's ability to move on so quickly when he calls her weak and states that "a better who wants reason's speech would have wept longer" (I.2.150- 151). Basically comparing his mother to
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