... to be grieving His mother Gertrude and his uncle/ step father Claudius are both trying to cheer him up. "How is it that the clouds still hang on you?" Claudius asks hamlet this question it appears he is concerned about him, Hamlet replies "not so, my lord, I am too much in the sun" Shakespeare has used the metaphor of too much in the sun meaning he is too much in the spotlight of events as a form of sarcasm on Hamlets part towards Claudius. In Hamlets first appearance Shakespeare makes it difficult to not feel a sense of sympathy for him for he seems very alone for his father has died, his mother has remarried his uncle and he is away from university. When the audience next see Hamlet he meets and speaks with the ghost which was first seen by Horatio in Act 1 Scene 1. Shakespeare carefully builds ...

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