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Hamlet over reacts to his mother’s remarriage, but I think that the fact that she married his uncle played a large role in it. When Hamlets father dies him mothers vows to never marry again. But, when she does she marries her first husband’s brother Hamlets it very upset by that especially when he finds out that the father was murdered by that man. Hamlet calls his mother’s new marriage “such love must needs be treason in my breast” I think it means that he is calling his mother a trader. I do not think that Hamlet wanted mother to be single the rest of her life I think he just wanted her to be honorable and not embarrass him. In Act I Scene 2 when he says that "a beast, that wants discouse of reason / Would have mourned longer." Meaning that

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