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God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another […] It hath made me mad. Throughout the play, Hamlet does seem genuinely troubled by his feelings about women, heaping abuse on both Gertrude and Ophelia with no particular purpose. Instead, he seems preoccupied with his misogynistic feelings about women.

When Ophelia tries to ask him polite questions about the play, he responds with cruel sexual jokes. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

Humans fatten other animals to eat, but they also fatten themselves to be eaten by worms. The point Hamlet is making is that sometimes when we act impulsively or rashly things turn out well, showing that there is a divine power shaping our lives. In the early acts, Hamlet had been indecisive but also very preoccupied with knowing the truth and determining the best thing to do. After he kills Polonius, and through the end of the play, Hamlet acts much more recklessly and is prepared to do things and let the chips fall where they may.

This attitude carries him into the last act, where Claudius and Laertes have laid a trap for him in the fencing match, but Hamlet is no longer particularly concerned with what happens to himself and gladly accepts, hoping the outcome will somehow fall in his favor.

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RSS 1. RSS 2. After discovering that they are spying on him, he says he'll tell them what's wrong with him, to save them the trouble of finding out for themselves. Because of this, it's hard to tell how to take the famous speech. When he says "man delights not me" 2. He blames himself for lack of passion and accuses himself of cowardice.

He longs for death and blames himself for thinking rather than acting. So Hamlet describes himself as he is urging Ophelia to get to a "nunnery. Hamlet thinks of two possible explanations for his failure to act, but doesn't commit himself to either one. Furthermore, neither explanation seems particularly persuasive.