WHAT IS HAMLETS OPNION OF HIS UNCLES DRINKING CUSTOMS? EXPLAIN LINES 23 TO 38 AND EXPLAIN WHY HAMLETS THOUGHTS TURN ON THIS MATTER. WHY IS THIS SPEECH SO DRAMATICALLY EFFECTIVE JUST BEFORE THE ENTRANCE OF THE GHOST? ACT 1 SCENE 4

Hamlet says his uncle's drinking and partying gives Denmark a bad reputation.

And to the manner born, it is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations.They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase Soil our addition. And indeed it takes From our achievements, though performed at height.