The Hamlet as I see People always say that “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes”, someone thinks Hamlet is audacious but foolhardiness, someone says Hamlet is good at thinking but indecisiveness. Someone sees Hamlet as he was living in a successful life, Someone determine Hamlet as he was following the steps by his father. Everyone has different way to see Hamlet, to learn from Hamlet. As I taste it careful, blend it slowly, I also realized something obvious though Hamlet’s life, that is Depression. Depression always follows a loved one’s death, I believe Hamlet was immersed in the pain of losing his father, after his father’s death he becomes irritable and emotionally unstable. Hamlet finds no true meaning in his life, …show more content…
Hamlet couldn’t understand why his mother would remarry so hurry after her husband’s death, and especially the fact that it’s to his uncle, his father’s brother, Claudius. He is disgusted by the fact that Gertrude is guilty of incest. He says “A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears—why she, even she (O, God, a beast, that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer!), married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.”(I. ii. 28) Hamlet was so angry about Gertrude that he can't even speak in complete sentences. Hamlet feels that his mother decision to remarry is not well thought out and disrespectful to his father. He compares her to Niobe, who grieved so bitterly for her dead children that she turned to stone. He feels so disappointed not because his mother remarried a “monster” and because she failed to mourn long enough for his father’s …show more content…
v. 62) Hamlet was not at all surprised to find that his father's murderer was his own uncle, but Insteel to kill Claudius with unsure, Hamlet chooses to pretend to be crazy for confirming that his uncle did kill his father. Claudius realized Hamlet knew something by his weird acting, he sent his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to him, seems to try and figure out the source of Hamlet's melancholy, in fact Hamlet sees that the two are, essentially, spying on him. Although he knew that the king had requested them to do these improperly things, he was still sad because of their greedy desires. Hamlet says "the air—look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors,"(II. ii. 110) he doesn’t want to breath the same air as the unscrupulous flatterers, the unreliable seeking friends. Hamlet refers to Denmark as a prison to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he feels so trapped in his life there and feels helpless to change his situation, as if he were locked into it like a prison cell. All his happiness was exterminated by this “prison”, he no longer feel that living in this world is a thing to be happy with. The feeling of helplessness and powerlessness out of control is exacerbated by the
Here, Hamlet’s agony arises from her marrying Claudius as aforementioned. He continues: “A little month, or ere those shoes were old... she followed my poor father’s body... Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer!
Throughout the play, Hamlet demonstrates a great amount of loyalty towards his father who had passed away all he wanted to do was bring peace to him in his afterlife. Hamlet was devastated when he had first found out that his father died all his emotion went towards his father. When he first finds out that the mother is re marrying again he felt that his mother was not being loyal to him whatsoever. One of Hamlets act of loyalty was his
Even after everyone around him has moved on, Hamlet is still grieving. Hamlet’s reaction to his mother’s betrayal further proves that he is most passionate about his family. If he didn’t care about them, then his mother’s remarriage so soon after his father’s death wouldn’t have bothered him, but it clearly does. Hamlet believed in the love between his father and mother, and seeing Gertrude
In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the main character Hamlet faces obstacles within himself and society. King Hamlet, Hamlet's father, died (killed by his brother King Claudius). Within a month after King Hamlet's death the widow, Queen Gertrude, marries the King Hamlet's brother, King Claudius. Hamlet becomes furious over the events and over the time becomes depressed. That is until the spirit of his dead father comes and tells him to seek revenge for his death.
To begin, the Queen’s remarriage is a driving force in Hamlet’s rage and stems from his grief. Hamlet’s frantic and nonsensical exclamation such as she “makes marriage vows as false as dicers oath” (Hamlet 3.4.46-47) and she lives “in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption” (3.4. 94-95). Hamlet harps on the immorality of his mother and it is probably the strongest reason he has to despise Claudius as he is unsure he really killed his father until the scene before this. He hates Claudius for replacing his father. This fractures his and his mother’s relationship.
I agree with the quotes that both Rosencratz and Laertes said about Hamlet because of the particular pressure of having less freedom to do as he wants is understandable, knowing that his, King Claudius’s and Gertrudes decisions affect everyone in Denmark, not just themselves or just a few like ordinary people. At the beginning of the novel, Prince Hamlet, was so emotional about the loss of his father, that even his mother Gertrude and uncle Claudius would talk about how moody he had been. Prince Hamlet was really upset with his mother because he viewed the marriage between her and Claudius as being her fault. I think Hamlet had to just suck it up and move on because there was nothing Hamlet could do to have them separate from each other. A
In the beginning Hamlet starts out as mellow, sad and depressed, this is all due to his father’s death. Hamlet’s father dies and not even two months his mother marries the now king, King Claudius. Since this is happening he starts to see his mother as someone who didn’t love her husband. It drives him crazy to know that someone who
Hamlet describes vividly his disgust for his mother, Gertrude, in his first soliloquy in the first act of this play. The queen has just remarried to her deceased husband’s brother, Claudius, in a short amount of time. Enraged by this rash decision of the queen’s, Hamlet shouts, “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (Shakespeare). Hamlet drives himself crazy mourning over his mother’s decision to marry Claudius.
Hamlet’s views on women is adulterous which pertains to the misogynistic tendencies in the play; thus, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, sparks up his misogynistic approaches. Hamlet is repulsed with Gertrude since she was quick to re-wed immediately following Old Hamlet’s death and cries: “She married. O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (1.2.156-157). Hamlet is shocked that his mother remarries to Claudius, Old Hamlet’s brother, before letting the tears on her cheek to dry.
Throughout the conversation and various parts of the play, Hamlet expresses his disgust for his mother 's actions. He insults her by comparing his father to Hyperion and Claudius to a satyr. He tells Gertrude not to sin by sleeping with him and tells her she is nothing but lustful for marrying a man like Claudius when he says, “That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,/ Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose/ From the fair forehead of an innocent love/ And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows/
In act one Gertrude marries her dead husband 's brother Claudius, Hamlet is not very happy that his mother did this. Hamlet feels very betrayed by his own mother because she remarried so quickly. He feels as if this is an unforgivable
This quote, said by Hamlet, explains that after hearing of his father’s death, he no longer wishes to exist and wishes to simply disappear. This proves that death has many different effects, in this case the effect is sadness and despair. Hamlet feels suicidal and no longer has a desire to live. Hamlet asks himself if it is better to keep living or to end his life early. The idea of suicide surfaces as a result of Hamlet’s preoccupation with death.
The leading force for Hamlet’s behavior to change is his mother marrying her dead husband’s brother two months later. In the play Hamlet states “O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason/ Would have mourned longer-married with my uncle,/ My father’s brother, but no more like my father” ( I.ii.150-152). This explains that Hamlet is frustrated because his mother moved on so fast and it seemed to him that she never really loved King Hamlet. Hamlet also claims that “Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,/That can denote me truly” ( I.ii.82-83 ). Hamlet is trying to tell his mother Queen Gertrude how he feels after the
During the first soliloquy we encounter a Hamlet who feels betrayed. He is anguished by his mother’s action. His conscious mind records only the fact that Queen Gertrude, the other half of his parental figure has marries the brother of his father with, ‘the same shoes that she walked to my father’s dead body (…) and they haven’t become old yet!’ He seems to be hurting more from the wedding rather than the death of his beloved father.
Hamlet is a very diverse character that goes through several different emotional stages throughout the novel. Some think that he is depressed because of his father’s death, and some think that his breakup with Ophelia has made him go mad. Though Hamlet does seem out of control at times, it is because he is keeping a secret about his father’s death. The average person does not usually deal with the death of their parent well, and knowing that it was intentional makes Hamlet even more emotionally unstable. From the beginning of the novel, Hamlet proves to be very melancholy, and upset with his life.