Hamlet: Emotions Of Despair, Sadness, Anger, And Inner Peace
The character of Prince Hamlet, in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," displays
many strong yet justified emotions. For instance, in Hamlet's "To be Or Not
To Be" soliloquy, perhaps one of the most well known quotes in the English
language, Hamlet actually debates suicide. His despair, sorrow, anger and
inner peace are all justifiable emotions for this troubled character.
Hamlet's feeling of despair towards his life and to the world
develops as the play moves on. In Hamlet's first soliloquy he reveals that
his despair has driven him to thoughts of suicide; "How weary (horrible) …
His law 'gainst self slaughter." Likewise, when Hamlet talks to his friends,
Rosenerantz and Guildenstern in Act 2 scene ...
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evident emotion, is very well developed
throughout the play. Initially, the only cause of Hamlet's sorrow is his
father's death. However, after reading Act 1, scene 2, we see in Hamlet's
asides that another source of his melancholy is his mother's hasty marriage
to Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Further, when Queen Gertrude asks her
son why his father's death "seems" so important, he replies, "Seems, madam?
Nay it is. I know not 'seems'." In addition, Shakespeare reveals another
source of sadness; now Hamlet is alone, with the most loved character in
his life, Ophelia, rejecting him. This cause is well brought out in
Hamlet's soliloquy in which he states; "Now I am alone. O, what a rouge and
peasant slave am I!" Finally, when Hamlet discovers that Ophelia has died,
new reasons for Hamlet's extreme feelings of sorrow are added. In fact, his
sorrow is so great that "Forty thousand brothers/Could not (with all their
quantity of love) Make up my sum." Thus, Hamlet's well developed ...
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