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Mood In Hamlet

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when it comes to text and music, tone plays a big role. Tone is how we decipher these things, tone is essential to its overall meaning. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the artist SZA's music both carry the tone of a person going through manic behavior. Both their motifs can be depicted as madness. First, in SZA's song “Normal girl” she sings about wanting to be the typical girlfriend. She states, “I'll be probably, I'll be proud like, I'll be probably a problem” In this quote she is acknowledging how difficult she is towards her significant other. Hamlet could relate to this quote because he was indeed the issue in the relationship. He was cruel to Ophelia because he let his anger towards his mother, Gertrude's marriage to his uncle, Claudius …show more content…

This can be described as manic behavior AKA Madness. We know Hamlet is also going through this mental state, as he is grieving all alone and handling his mothers new marriage.Secondly, SZA sings about how she “Rather be in jail than alone.” I feel like this is the second best relatable quote to Hamlet. Every action he’s considering to take for revenge can lead to him in jail. After all the grief he's handling right now, he can’t see himself staying alive unless he gets his revenge.Furthermore, SZA and Hamlet are both giving off a frantic tone and a motif of madness. They seem to be losing it, preferring to lose their freedom rather than let reality be.In her song “Good Days' ' , The artist SZA wrote “I've been on my empty mind stuff I try to keep from losin' the rest of me”. This part of the song can be explained as SZA going through a breakup and not taking it well at all. She’s been in her head a lot and is trying to keep herself sane. This quote can relate to William Shakespear's character Hamlet because he hasn’t been himself since his dad was murdered and his mother married his

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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Shakespeare uses range of literary techniques such as soliloquies to express Hamlet’s depression and anger. Hamlet’s emotions play a crucial role to achieve his secret ambitions. Events such as King Hamlet’s death, Hamlet’s mother’s expeditious marriage, conflict between Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet’s depression and anger is expressed throughout the play but what are the causes. The root of Hamlet’s feelings of depression and anger was his father’s death.

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Shakespeare uses reference to display a confused emotion to characterize Hamlet as a naïve character, one who does not know anything about death. As Hamlet observed the grave digger, he thinks about Julius Caesar. He compares Julius Caesar to his father to emphasize the death. Hamlet thinks that someone as great as Caesar wouldn’t be died. According to one of Shakespeare’s book, Caesar was favored by many people because he was the Roman leader.

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He does nothing with his life for a long time. He walks and dresses in black. When someone is lazy with their life, no matter what the reason is, they become distracted and wrath builds up in their hearts. We see this in Hamlet as he begins to hate everything around him and lives in depression.

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His depression is so great that he has thought of suicide, a huge cultural sin, as he knows. Hamlet’s thoughtfulness is also conveyed, taking six lines to delve into his emotions.

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Did you know that emotions can lead to bloodshed? In the book Hamlet by William Shakespeare which the book is about a sad tragedy. The main character Hamlet thinks his dad was killed by someone, so he is on his journey to find out who did it. I believe that emotions holds the greatest power of all. Emotions can influence the decision make, it can lead to a lot of deaths, and it can create hatred between people.

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There are moments in this world where someone can be so depressed that they do not want to live any longer. Many teenagers experience the same stress as Hamlet did in the play from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The character Hamlet is under stressed due to the death of his father who he loved a lot, and the early remarriage of his mother with his uncle. In addition, Hamlet is even more stressed out when the ghost presented itself as Hamlet’s father and wanted Hamlet to revenge for his father’s death. Even though Hamlet is under stress he remained between the state of sane or temporarily insane throughout the play.

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In the Tragedy of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, some of the most significant events are mental or psychological events that make the audience feel and have an emotional connection with the characters. These significant events can be awakenings, discoveries, and changes in consciousness that set off a mental or psychological effect to the readers. The author, Shakespeare, gives these internal events to characters such as Ophelia, Gertrude, and Hamlet throughout the play to give the sense of excitement, suspense, and climax usually associated with external action. Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and the sister of Laertes who both tell her to stop seeing Hamlet. To Polonius, Ophelia is an eternal virgin who is going to be a dutiful

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Hamlet’s depression inhibits his obsession for vengeance due to his inability to take action. Hamlet has suffered emotional trauma and often uses sarcasm to mask his pain. He pokes fun at the situations he’s faced with

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1.) “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain”, a similar phrase to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar "And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,/ Millions of mischiefs" (Act 4, scene 1, 50–51). This phrase refers to those who though smile and act benevolent aren’t in fact what they seem. The character that fits most perfectly with this description is Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle who we can repeatedly see how his actions don’t reflect his true intensions. He hides his crimes behind festivities and false grief as we can see when he decides to marry his late brother’s wife after Claudius himself assassinated him.

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“But o, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes” Hamlet written by William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan age revolves around the setting, time and the nature of its characters. Happiness in Hamlet is a vague theme that involves almost all the characters, who are significantly influenced by the time and place of the play, the sexuality of the characters and also, how they practice deception. The tragedy of Hamlet presents various characters who pursue or compromise their happiness to satisfy their conscience. This is shown through characters such as Hamlet, Claudius and Ophelia. In addition, to how their differences and similarities shape their personalities, which causes them to pursue or compromise their happiness.

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The inner workings of a villain’s mind in a story is not always clear when simply reading the story. To be able to truly understand why the antagonist commits their crimes, one must deeply analyze them to gain a full understanding as to why they did their terrible deeds. In the case of Hamlet, to understand why Claudius chose to kill his brother and claim the queen as his wife, one must critically analyze his psyche. A critical psychological analysis consists of discovering the motivations of a character by looking at the different sections of their psyche, being the id, ego, and superego, and seeing which portion had the most input in the behavior of that character. By studying Claudius through a critical psychological analysis, one can discover

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The way people think about you versus your own feeling about yourself. In William Shakespeare's dramatic play, Hamlet, people's appearances to other people and how they really feel are two different things as seen in the play. One character, Hamlet, how he presents himself and how he really feels are two different things. The way that he appears to other people is that he is recovering from the death of his father in a good way and has a great relationship with his mother and now step-dad. The way that he really feels is that he is not happy and needs help, but no one notices.

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In the final scene of Hamlet, Hamlet says “Being thus be-netted round with villainies, -- Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, they had begun the play” (Shakespeare 131). Hamlet ironically thinks to himself as a character in a play because he is so melodramatically self-conscious. By adding this sense of paradoxical exposure, Shakespeare shows his effort to foreground the fact that the audience is watching a play within the play. Since Hamlet is such a rich character, Shakespeare’s work shows how he has something within him goes beyond what a play is capable of representing.

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Hamlet does not value Ophelia 's feelings he belittles her. In Hamlets defense this is the way he was brought up to treat women, during that time this was a common way to treat a women. Even though in today 's society it is not at all ok to treat women with such disrespect. He also likes for everything to go as planned and this may result in why he can not have a stable relationship with a woman. This also causes him to have many stumbling blocks in his life that causes some emotional pain

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I.v.90). Hamlet is about a young prince who is mourning the loss of his father. He then tries to seek revenge on his uncle Claudius because he poisoned his father. Throughout the play Hamlet’s behavior starts to change which causes him to become mad. The theory about all this is a Psychological Approach.

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