Inside Hamlet’s Mind

Inside Hamlet’s Mind

  • Submitted By: nc5xb3
  • Date Submitted: 01/19/2014 7:15 PM
  • Category: English
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In Hamlet’s first soliloquy, the audience gets their first insight into his mind. During Hamlet’s speech, the audience can see that there are some major things troubling the young prince. Hamlet’s own suicidal thoughts, disorder in Denmark, and Claudius’ marriage to his mother are all topics that are bothering him. As he explains these things to the audience, Hamlet reveals things about himself and about his emotional state.
Depression, it can cause people to feel trapped in grief, and sorrow in times of suffering. This is what happens to Hamlet after the death of his father, but it is not until Hamlet’s soliloquy that the audience gets a full view of how hard his father’s death hit him. When Hamlet says, “Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d his canon against self –slaughter”, the audience learns the full extent of Hamlet’s suffering. From his previous conversation, the king and queen reveal that Hamlet is still in mourning over his dead father. This connection between Hamlet’s depression and his father’s death reveals how close Hamlet’s relationship with his father must have been. The mere fact that Hamlet is contemplating suicide reveals the emotional damage that he sustained because of his father’s death. Hamlet resolves his thoughts within himself, and this resolution reveals another thing about him. When someone is so depressed that they are having suicidal thoughts, it takes something very powerful to stop them. The thing that stops Hamlet is

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his religion. Hamlet decides that he cannot commit suicide because it is against God’s law. This shows how much Hamlet trusts his religion and how religious he actually is.
Prior to the king’s death, Denmark fell into a state of disarray. During his soliloquy, Hamlet worries about this disorder and how it is taking over the world. Hamlet explains this takeover when he says, “‘tis an...

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