The Aloe flower in the play Hamlet represents grief. The main character of the play, Hamlet, had lost his father and was grieving over his death. Hamlet then found out that King Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, was the one who murdered Hamlet’s father. As the novel progresses, Hamlet adds grief to those around him. When he kills Polonius, he causes an extensive amount of grief for Polonius’s children, Ophelia and Laertes.
A writer by the name of Holly Crocker has created a piece called the Hamlet Affect which talks about how the lies/ tragedy in the play destroys us as moral beings. Written in the article it says “ Hamlet’s self - awareness makes up for the fact that his vengeance cheapens the lives of others”. She digs deeper into Hamlet explaining his self- awareness because Hamlet is focused on vengeance and that overpowers the tho surrounding him. His path to avenge his father is destroying his life because he devoted to the cause forgetting the devastating cost that comes along with it. Hamlet’s desire in the pursuit of revenge have his mental health questioned .
Is he crazy or is he just grieving? Or is he grieving incorrectly? The Kübler-Ross model, otherwise known as the Five Stages to Grief say that one must go through Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance before they have properly grieved. While there is no wrong or right way to grieve, the stages are listed as an example of what might happen. Hamlet, in the play Hamlet is made out to be crazy but in reality he is not grieving correctly.
When Hamlet learns the truth upon his father's death his emotions escalate from zero to one hundred real quick. “ A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause and can say nothing; no not for a king” (2.2.18-21). In this soliloquy Hamlet is expressing his emotions after holding them in for so long. He shows cowardness when he doesn't believe in himself. As teenagers we all do this and we hold in what we want to say and at some points we just burst out many emotions at a time.
Hamlet, also, could not get over the death of his father. He found out when his father’s ghost came back that his brother, and Hamlet’s uncle, murdered him. He then was willing to do anything possible to get revenge on Claudius, his uncle. Both of
Cause of Psychotic Outbreak: Greif…? According to Swiss Psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, when dealing with the loss or death of a loved one, people experience the five stages of grief, those being: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. However, many people experience these stages differently, for different periods of time, or even not at all. With that being said, in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the main character and namesake for the play experiences most of the stages of grief, such as bargaining, anger, and depression, due to the death of his father causing his thirst for revenge against his uncle.
Hamlet perishes at the hands of his own extreme doubt. The play may have ended quite differently if Hamlet was able to find at least one source to rely on or confide in. In a very troubling time of coping with his father’s death, social support from one of the many individuals who reached out to Hamlet may have been incredibly beneficial. The world does not have to be a cruel place. Hamlet may have even found some peace in all of his troubles if he could find a tiny spark of faith behind his massive cloud of doubt.
Hamlet states “How strange or odd some’er I bear myself /As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on)” (1.5.190-192) “ when he finds out through the Ghost otherwise known as the late King Hamlet, that Claudius or King Claudius, the brother to the now passed King Hamlet, actually murdered King Hamlet. In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet who is the main character, goes through a series of events which sometimes question his decisions that he makes. Though Hamlet is still considered not a full adult he faces situations in the play that forces him to make adult like decisions.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet struggles to cope with his late father’s death and his mother’s quick marriage. In Act 1, Scene 2, King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, and Hamlet are all introduced. Hamlet has just finished publicly speaking with his mom and the new king, and after he is interrupted by his good friend Horatio, who reveal the secret about King Hamlet’s ghost. Hamlet’s soliloquy is particularly crucial because it serves as his initial characterization, revealing the causes of his anguish. Hamlet’s grief is apparent to the audience, as he begins lamenting about the uselessness of life.
Like many things, Hamlet is intelligent and honorable, but his indecisiveness is the cause of his tragic downfall. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare portrays that Hamlet is very incapable of finishing the task at hand. Throughout the drama Hamlet faces many trials and tribulations due to his late father Hamlet, who was murderously killed by Claudius. His inability to kill Claudius and himself is one grand flaw of an epic hero. After King Hamlets passing, Hamlet entered an unknown state of mind that not only feared others for his wellbeing, but also feared himself.
He is introduced as a somewhat brooding and pessimistic character with little to live for but is soon given a purpose after his father’s ghost requests him avenge his death, and rather than taking immediate action, he ends up overthinking an elaborate plan involving faking his own madness. Although Hamlet initially seems confident and self-assured in separating his feigned instability from his actual beliefs, the two seem to get somewhat intertwined as the story progresses, and Hamlet gets so caught up with keeping up a facade that he ends up becoming the very person he was once only pretending to be. With this gradual change in characterization, Shakespeare attempts to emphasize the way in which obsessive qualities can lead to destructive outcomes, as they can cause a person to do irrational things they once would never think of to carry out their overall goal. Many try to rationalize the behavior of Hamlet and figure out what deeper meaning could have led to his erratic tendencies. In the academic article “Hamlet-The Lonely Only and His Siblings,” author Juliet Mitchel analyzes the way in which Hamlet’s possible loneliness and
The illusion of death has wondered and astonished many for years. This doesn 't exclude the fantastic author Shakespeare. Throughout the play, Shakespeare focuses on death and how society glorifies it. He often uses metaphor and analogy in order to make death seem more welcoming. Turmoil and confusion can internally destroy any country.
He is depressed and suicidal as indicated in his infamous quote, “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” (3.1.57). However, while many may choose to carry on after the death of a loved one, Hamlet chose to hold on to his sorrow and pretended to be mad so he can know the truth behind his father’s death. Hamlet’s tragic life is not the cause for his madness. Hamlet drives himself to the brink of insanity
thought of ending his life and escaping from all these depression and emotional torture. “What is the good of living when shame torments our conscience and cowardice holds us back from gallant enterprises?”(Act 3, scene 1). Here, Hamlet is being confronted with a situation that is too much for him to handle. Hamlet wonders, what is the gain in avenging his father’s death, if it can not change anything or make him happy? It will not bring his father back to life, he will not possess his mother, he might not be crown king and he might be jailed, even when he had every opportunity to kill his uncle while he was praying, instead of claiming that he does not want him to go to heaven.
Through the entirety of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the characters were overcome with the need for revenge as the outcome of many deaths. Therefore, no one was happy through “Hamlet” and it resulted in a tragedy. The character Hamlet played a big role in turning towards revenge and never would classify himself as being happy. Hamlet displays positive and negative behavior throughout the play. Hamlet exhibits strengths and weaknesses as well, although his weaknesses of over-thinking, bitterness, and his inability to accept the death of his father overshadow his strengths.
