The Hamlet Project

To see emotion as a duty
Mourning as an obligation
This is the fundamental difference between these two men –
One will feel, will consider, will grapple with the waves that loss will bring to his shore
The other will respond according to tradition –
Any emotion he has will be pressed into an unrecognizable shape.
Does he mourn the brother he killed? If he does – he’s pressed this copper of the penny into a flat souvenir and printed his own seal upon it.
Then he condescends to his nephew stepson
And pats him on the head for doing something
He himself has not the slightest idea of how to do.