Nor customary suits of solemn black,.
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,.
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,.
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,.
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,".
Act one, scene 2, lines 77 trough to 82.
Although it seems he to hide his grief as he is one of the few that is still in morning after his mothers marriage of " wicked speed" to he who "Now wears the crown". As the quote above is carried on to reveal.
"That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,.
For they are actions that a man might play,.
But I have within which passes show,.
These are the trapping and suits of woe".
Act one, scene 2, lines 83 trough to 86.
Perhaps the subtext of what he's saying is that he who is "heir to the throne" can not openly feel what the everyday average man can feel toward losing a parent and so must mock these intense feelings. Even his mother wants him to.
" Caste thy nighted colour off.
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark".
Act one, scene 2, line 67/68.
When she says Denmark she is not only referring to country but king too. For hamlet to be told to feel grief is " unmanly" and "incorrect to heaven" must be unimaginable. This too coming from the two people he should be grieving with but is loathing, his dead father own brother who has married his mother. This "incestuous" marriage would be the beginning of hamlets depressive state of mine. Shown in his soliloquy later in the play.
"Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable".
Act one, scene 2, line 132.
The betrayal felt by Hamlet of his own mother is immense and is even carried on to his own love interest Ophelia. Gertrude the queen has married Claudius, soon after the old king's death to hamlet this marriage is incomprehensible, as we can see by this quote.
" It is not, nor it connot come to good,.
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.".
Act one, scene 2, lines 158/9.