RALPH: Hamlet now returns to himself. While actors have to pretend to be something they're not, Hamlet has very real and very compelling motives to take action, and yet he's done nothing.

SARAH: And here Hamlet emphasizes that his motive for revenge is not only personal, but political — his father was the King, and therefore a traitor sits on the throne.

RALPH: Then Hamlet continues with a series of questions to himself — what do you make of these, Sarah?

SARAH: Well, it's as if he's imagining someone challenging him: calling him a coward, insulting him, hitting him on the head, and he's wondering how he would respond to such provocation.

RALPH: So when he says "I should take it," he means he'd deserve such treatment, because these accusations are accurate. In fact, perhaps it's as if he's thinking that the actual state of things is an even more insulting situation than if someone were confronting him directly — someone has killed his father, married his mother, and now demands his allegiance as a citizen and his loyalty as a son. What could be more insulting than that?