At the begging of the play, when we first meet Hamlet, he is portrayed as a sad yet kind of a mad man. The reason for this is because his father had died no more than 2 months ago and already his mother had married and worst of all she married his uncle. “But two months dead-nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a King, that was to this hyperion to a satyr; so loving …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 868 total…When Claudius found out that Polonius is dead he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find Hamlet and have him show them where the body is. The only problem is that Hamlet won’t tell them where he hid the body. Whenever they ask him where the body is he makes a smart remark that makes it seem like he is going to send them on a scavenger hunt if they want to find the body.