Hamlet

Scene 5 lines 106-112: .
             O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables "meet it is I set it down. That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
             [writes].
             So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word: "It is Adieu, adieu, adieu, and remember me."" I have sworn't. .
             Andrews explains the significance of this passage in relation to Hamlet's mourning and confusion by saying:.
             This is a crucial and dreadful vow for many reasons, but the most important, as Freud places us in a position to understand, is that the ghost's injunction to remember him "an injunction that Shakespeare's commitment to whole force of the revenge genre never permits either us or Hamlet to question "brutally intensifies Hamlet's mourning. The essence of the work of mourning is the internal process by which the ego heals its wound, differentiates itself from the object, and slowly, bit by bit, cuts its libidinal ties with the one who has died. Yet this is precisely what the ghost forbids, moreover, with a lack of sympathy for Hamlet's grief that is even more pronounced than the Queen's. He instead tells Hamlet that if he ever loved his father, he should remember him.
             The ghost's demand to be remembered and avenged adds greatly to the confusion by not allowing for Hamlet to view Claudius as his new father. His opinions regarding his mother also change because the ghost's speech link the King's murder to Gertrude's marriage to Claudius, making the Queen look just as guilty as Claudius in regards to loyalty to the King. Furthermore, the spirit of Hamlet's father tells him "Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven,"" which obligates him to aim no wrath towards his mother for the wrong she has done.
             Maynard Mack in "The World of Hamlet- also noted hamlet's confusion. Mack wrote:.
             He [Hamlet] cannot tell why he has of late lost all his mirth, forgone all custom of exercises.