Grief is inside Hamlet like a black hole, and clouds his mind with thoughts of suicide, murder, and most importantly, revenge. Throughout this play, Hamlet’s actions are controlled by his grief after he finds out his own uncle killed his father. This affects the reader by disproving both sides of the insane/sane argument. Instead it shows that Hamlet was purely acting out the five stages of grief, and that he was acting completely normal. Hamlet’s denial and isolation because of the grief he experiences
As he awaits the beginning of “The Mousetrap” in act three, Hamlet uses his silver tongue to commentate on the short period of mourning that followed his father’s untimely death. This section of dialogue not only condemns those who have forgotten the former king, but also allows Hamlet to express his still fresh grief. When Ophelia corrects him in the fact that Hamlet’s father died four months ago instead of two hours before, he lashes out about the ephemeral quality of man’s memory. This scene is
Mental Illnesses That Are a Result of Stress The play “Hamlet” and the book The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing both have characters that have significant mental illnesses. Shakespeare’s character that he created, Hamlet, shows symptoms that lead me to believe that he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD might not have been identified or labeled at the time that “Hamlet” was written, but a significant amount of Hamlet’s actions, conversations, and emotions can fall under what people call
control over such random, spontaneous events. Perhaps its ineluctability, the fact that we cannot undo a death, or ever regain that person, or replay the day of the death to try to change it, is what causes feelings of grief and sadness in human beings. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet begins to ponder and consider the meaning of life in the wake of his father’s death. He ponders on the spiritual aftermath of death through the ghost, and on the physical components of it as well, where Yorick’s skull
In Hamlet, Shakespeare presents many speeches in where they show comparisons between each other. These comparisons are shown when Hamlet laments his father’s dead and his mother’s marriage to Claudius. This is shown in Hamlet’s famous soliloquy’s when he had said, “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt…But Break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue” (1.2.130-159). The primary function of this soliloquy is to present Hamlet’s distress and madness. Hamlet not only shows a great intensity of anguish
Marcellus declares to Horatio as Hamlet chases after the ghost of his father. This quote, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is actually a metaphor for all things “rotten” within the play. Marcellus means that the King’s Ghost is a bad omen, but the quote itself symbolizes how Gertrude and Claudius’ incestuous marriage is causing decay of the royal family in Denmark. The marriage between Claudius and Gertrude is the source of grief in Hamlet. Claudius murders his brother, King Hamlet, committing the oldest sin
play Hamlet by Shakespeare, the protagonist Hamlet experiences the distortions of love and trust after his return to Denmark. Hamlet whole-heartedly believed that his mother Gertrude was truly in love with his father, King Hamlet. However, in less than one month after King Hamlet’s death, Gertrude remarries Claudius, her husband’s own brother. Upon the hasty marriage of his mother and his uncle, Hamlet feels betrayed by his mother and is absolutely desperate over her unfaithfulness. Hamlet then
Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Hamlet, characters will often confront decisions bound by different desires and selfish ambitions. The protagonist, Hamlet, is put against two desires which ultimately lead to an outcome for his revenge. Hamlet's conflict of living morally versus avenging his father's death illuminates the meaning of how indecisiveness may torment an individual's attempt to make a correct decision. Hamlet's desire of living morlaly proceeds to be a grand conflict. Hamlet, throughout the play
Sympathy for Claudius In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, King Claudius is undoubtedly evil and immoral in the eyes of Prince Hamlet. King Claudius managed to kill his own brother in order to marry his late brother’s wife, and take the throne. Though the murder and marriage was evil, haste, and unjust, Claudius has limited success in making readers/audiences feel sympathy towards him when he began showing his remorse and guilt. Claudius has a complex personality; and although he committed
literature, redone” This old axiom perfectly describes the relationship between Hamlet and The Lion King, but some insist that comparing William Shakespeare to the corporate writers at Disney is like comparing Mozart to Justin Bieber. Though Hamlet and The Lion King were written some four hundred years apart, similarities between characters are uncanny, especially between Hamlet and Simba. To begin, Simba and Hamlet are both left fatherless and without their rightful thrones after their fathers’