Prince Hamlet of Denmark is a remarkably intense character put in an even more intense situation. readers witness Hamlet’s mental health deteriorate over the course of the play. Hamlet seems to continue to go “crazy” as the play progresses. The audience gets to see the severity of Hamlet’s depression develop as he tries to figure out the mystery as to how his father died. Hamlet’s many soliloquies show his emotions to the audience as his depression develops as well as his strategies to catch Claudius with the death of his father. Hamlet's first soliloquy in scene one act two represents Hamlet’s disparity of his mother and uncle’s fast wedding, along with his disapproval of her moving on too fast. “Why she, even she O God, a beast that wants discourse of a reason Would have mourned longer! Married with my uncle, My fathers brother, but no more like my …show more content…
Though he thinks that everyone has these thoughts, others don't act on them. This soliloquy shows Hamlet's serious deterioration in his mental health by now. “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- no more.” (3.1. 57-60) Ophelia has a love for Hamlet, the audience sees this by her soliloquies, as well as the conversations with her father about Hamlet. Hamlet tells Ophelia that he never loved her, and she should go to a nunnery in act three scene one. “You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.” (3.1. 117-119). Hamlet then asks to lay his head in Ophelia’s lap during the play. This shows how he is mentally unstable and manipulative, contradicting everything he says. Hamlet was not manipulative towards Ophelia until