Definition 3 seems to be the most apt description of what happens to the players as things get more and more “utterly foolish or unreasonable” and the players act with “extreme folly or unreasonableness” until everything falls apart at the end. If nobody else had witnessed the ghost of his father, then a case could be made for schizophrenia (definition 1) as Hamlet might have Sidhu 2 been having a hallucination. I feel by Shakespeare writing of other witnesses to the ghost, that that makes it clear that the ghost was actually real and not something made up in Hamlet’s mind.
Hamlet is depressed and angry. It seems reasonable he would feel depressed over his father’s death and reasonable that he would be angry at his mother marrying his uncle so quickly after. His uncle makes digs at his the way Hamlet is handling his grief. Claudius …show more content…
Gertrude says to Hamlet, “Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
Hamlet’s depression and hopelessness is evident by what he says in his first soliloquy. Hamlet laments that “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! Ah fie! T’is an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.”
Shortly thereafter, Hamlet sees the ghost of his father. His father’s ghost, King Hamlet, tells Hamlet that Claudius poisoned him. Hamlet’s father tells him to seek revenge against Claudius. I think this is the moment Hamlet’s sanity began unraveling. It was bad enough to hate his uncle Sidhu 3 marrying his mother so soon and to be mourning his father’s death. But then being told by his father’s ghost that his father was murdered by Claudius – that was all that was needed to set Hamlet off on his path of
Hamlet is depressed and angry. It seems reasonable he would feel depressed over his father’s death and reasonable that he would be angry at his mother marrying his uncle so quickly after. His uncle makes digs at his the way Hamlet is handling his grief. Claudius …show more content…
Gertrude says to Hamlet, “Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
Hamlet’s depression and hopelessness is evident by what he says in his first soliloquy. Hamlet laments that “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! Ah fie! T’is an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.”
Shortly thereafter, Hamlet sees the ghost of his father. His father’s ghost, King Hamlet, tells Hamlet that Claudius poisoned him. Hamlet’s father tells him to seek revenge against Claudius. I think this is the moment Hamlet’s sanity began unraveling. It was bad enough to hate his uncle Sidhu 3 marrying his mother so soon and to be mourning his father’s death. But then being told by his father’s ghost that his father was murdered by Claudius – that was all that was needed to set Hamlet off on his path of