Please go into detail and answer all of the subquestions. If someone could use quotes directly from Hamlet to help me understand what is happening, that would be amazing. Thank you.
Claudius does not wish to hurt Gertrude.
The Queen his mother
Lives almost by his looks; and for myself—
My virtue or my plague, be it either which—
She's so conjunctive to my life and soul
That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
I could not but by her.
Hamlet is popular with the people.
The other motive
Why to a public count I might not go
Is the great love the general gender bear him,
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,
Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
Would have reverted to my bow again,
And not where I had aim'd them.
Hamlet
