Hamlet

How does Claudius criticize Hamlet's continued mourning

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Claudius says that mourning for too long is against God's will. He says that Hamlet has to understand that all things come to an end and that everybody eventually has a dead father.

But you must know your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,