Hamlet Character Post #1

I still cannot believe that that just happened. I witnessed my very own mother wed to my uncle, her dead husbands brother. The people are questioning my actions and expect me to just move on when it's only been a few months since the death of my father, "How is it that the clouds still hang on you?" (1.2.66) Even my own mother has already gotten over the sudden death of my father. She is already telling me to "cast thy nighted colour off." (1.2.) Is no one even questioning what happened to him? How can Claudius just stand there and act like he's mourning the death of my father, his brother, "o bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom, to be contracted in one brow of woe" (1.2.3-4). The second my father died, he grabbed the opportunity and stole everything that was his. Am I the only one who can see past his facade? My good friend Horatio is the only person I can trust and rely on since he led me to the ghost of my dead father, "In the dead vast and middle of the night, Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, Appears before them, and with solemn march Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes" (1.2). After interacting with the ghost of my father the other night, I now realize what I must do. My uncle murdered my father and it is my duty to avenge his death, "So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word; It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.' I have sworn 't." (1.2.)