1. Hamlet Act 1 scene 2
Notes

2. The second part of scene two
After the court with Claudius and Gertrude
Deals with Hamlet's reactions, his melancholy, and its causes:

3. Hamlet’s reactions, his melancholy and its causes:
Frustrated: can’t do anything about the marriage
“O God, O god heaven and earth must I remember.”

4. Confused Doesn’t know how much time has passed since his father died
(two months, within a month)

5. Feeling Useless Wishes his “sullied flesh would melt.” Suicidal
His flesh is sullied because he carries his mother’s blood

6. Hateful and Revolted Hateful towards Claudius Revolted by mother
She didn’t mourn long enough
She is behaving lustfully
She is behaving incestuously with Claudius

7. Disillusioned Hamlet thought his parents wildly in love
“she would hang on him as if increase of appetite of appetite grown/by what it fed on.”

8. Progressively More Emotional
His speech gets choppier as the scene progresses.

9. Feels His World has Collapsed
Because his father is dead, and his mother remarried very quickly, he has lost both a mother and a father.
This world is rank (disease imagery): an “unweeded garden that grows to seed”

10. Changeable
He then very quickly becomes affectionate and polite to Horatio, the soldiers Marcellus and Bernardo

11. Suspicious Aware of the foul situation
“foul deeds will rise/Though all the earth o’erwhelm them to men’s eyes.”