Hamlet is confronted with his feelings towards his mother regarding his father's death and his mother's marriage to his uncle. This overwhelming grief that Hamlet first experiences turns into rage. Claudius will never be comparable to Hamlet's father. Hamlet compares his father to Hyperion, who is a god, and compares Claudius to some kind of beast. Hamlet feels burdened by his mother because she was not sincere with her tears of sorrow over the death of King Hamlet. Now Hamlet wonders if she truly loved the king, if she did she would still mourn his death. Instead, she married the bad guys. The ghost of his late father reveals clues to the origin of his death. He begs Hamlet to act to avenge the murder. Still, he had a dilemma about when to kill. When Claude is least