After Hamlet expresses doubt in the Ghost, he conveys that he must take revenge but does not have the heart to do so when he says "That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,/ Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell," (2.2.581-582). Hamlet then continues to comment on what he has been doing, "And thus the native hue of resolution/ Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of thought,/ And enterprises of great pith and moment/ With this regard their currents turn awry,/ And lose the name of action" (3.1.85-89). ...

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This immoral remarriage leaves the hurting son, Hamlet in disgust and anger. ... Her clothes spread wide, and, mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds, as one incapable of her own distress or like a creature native and endued unto that element. ...

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