Indeed, he feels so isolated and entrapped in his native land that he says " Denmark's a prisonin which there are many confines, wards, dungeons" (II. ii.264-6). ... His mother begs him to cast his nighted colour off."6 She cannot begin to comprehend her son's emotional state and therefore takes it much more lightly than she should. Due to her inability to understand her son she resorts to pleading with Hamlet in hopes that she can change his outlook. ...

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