Hamlet

What is Claudius’s reasons for telling Hamlet to stop mourning for his father?

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Claudius reasons that everybody loses a father: death is both natural and inevitable.

Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father. But you must know your father lost a father, 90That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term Claudius points out that it is stubborn to mourn for too long.