"O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourned longer ... / It is not, nor it cannot come to good. / But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue (1.2.154-164).
The reader's first impressions about Hamlet are that he truly cares for his father and he is kind of passive. Shakespeare highlights Hamlet's affection for his father by giving King Claudius and Queen Gertrude merciless tones. Hamlet comments on his own mother's actions, causing him to be in great disgust. He compares his mother's affection to be lower than one of a beast's. Queen Gertrude marries King Claudius hastily, not considering that her husband has just died. Regardless of Hamlet's anger for his new parents' affection, Hamlet's taciturn and diffidence behavior causes him to not be able to stand up for what he believes in. The audience can see that Hamlet venerates his father when Hamlet banters to Horatio about that apparition Horatio saw last night. Hamlet is a protagonist we can root for because he goes against his current family's beliefs in order to live on the legacy of his fallen father.
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