Hamlet also lacks diplomatic abilities or has them, and cares little for diplomacy. Hamlet openly antagonizes his uncle in the beginning, and humiliates him or tires to, in front of the whole kingdom. When Claudius calls Hamlet his cousin and son, Hamlet responds, “A little more than kin, and less than kind” (I,ii), clearly angry and disillusioned with his uncle. In the same scene he undermines Claudius’ authority by shaming the marriage of Claudius and Gertrude. Further, Hamlet does not try to talk or dissuade violence when faced with violence or confrontation in general. “...with the arrival of Fortinbras, we are also meant to see him as "a delicate and tender prince," in Hamlet's own words, a figure who revives the nobility of conduct that
