Kayelee Mathes
Ms. Light
English 4
15 February 2017
Inside His Mind “Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 2. 2. 119-122). This excerpt from the famous play was written in a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia. Even here, the audience can see Hamlet has yet to speak his feelings. At the start of the play, Hamlet shows more emotion. He normally speaks his mind in isolation. So whenever people find out his true intentions, Hamlet is ridiculed. In Shakespearian tTimes, the same as today, men are looked down for showing what they really feel on the inside. They are told to mask their feelings so that way they do not seem weak to others. Although written …show more content…
(This is why soliloquy is so important in the play—in the first three acts he is always trying to name the unnameable: he is pushed into intense aloneness that he tries to bring into language, only to feel even more alone.) He embodies the mysteries that occur when humans know what they can be, yet have to accept the fact that their being is evidence of a failure to achieve that very possibility. And the disturbingly positive side of the failure is that he presents something that is not bound to knowable aspects of human nature. That I think is what is modern about him—not that he needs psychoanalysis so much as that he is unlikely to believe anything the psychoanalyst tells him about his pain” ("Charles Altieri Homepage"). Hamlet is emotionally alone. Eventually, he learns to cope and work through things on his own. No one is ever there for him. Hamlet is illustrated as a strong individual, but everyone has a breaking point. At the commencement of the play, Hamlet has Ophelia, his mother, and his friends. Through all of his trials and tribulations, he gets lost along the way. He becomes so paranoid that he is rude to his true love, Ophelia, because he knows that it will throw off the enemy (King Claudius and Polonius). After the fact, he begins to sink deeper and deeper into his loneliness until he can not be rescued out of this grave that he has dug for himself. By the finale of the play, all he has left is Horatio. Horatio lives on to tell the …show more content…
Boys had less mental health knowledge and experience and higher mental health stigma than girls. In adjusted analyses, girls were twice as likely as boys to report willingness to use mental health services (odds ratio [OR] 2.45, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20–4.99). Parental disapproval and perceived stigma helped to explain the relationship between gender and willingness to use mental health services (OR 1.65, 95% CI .72–3.77)” (A CHANDRA and C MINKOVITZ, “Stigma Starts Early: Gender Differences In Teen Willingness To Use Mental Health Services”). Hamlet’s soliloquies are always extremely deep. He even contemplates suicide on occasion. These findings show that, at a young age, girls are two times more likely to be willing to use mental health services. Not only does this mean mental hospitals, but it also means counselors. Whenever a female has an issue, it is completely normal to watch them seek out help (whether that be from a friend, family member, or counselor). Hardly ever, though, does society see men in a counselor’s office. Imagine how things would have changed for Hamlet if he would have come clean to his mother or Ophelia and let them offer help. Maybe things would not have turned out the way that they did. Like in Hamlet, males parents tend to show disapproval whenever their son comes to them with problems. They are told to “man up”
Ms. Light
English 4
15 February 2017
Inside His Mind “Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love” (Shakespeare, Hamlet 2. 2. 119-122). This excerpt from the famous play was written in a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia. Even here, the audience can see Hamlet has yet to speak his feelings. At the start of the play, Hamlet shows more emotion. He normally speaks his mind in isolation. So whenever people find out his true intentions, Hamlet is ridiculed. In Shakespearian tTimes, the same as today, men are looked down for showing what they really feel on the inside. They are told to mask their feelings so that way they do not seem weak to others. Although written …show more content…
(This is why soliloquy is so important in the play—in the first three acts he is always trying to name the unnameable: he is pushed into intense aloneness that he tries to bring into language, only to feel even more alone.) He embodies the mysteries that occur when humans know what they can be, yet have to accept the fact that their being is evidence of a failure to achieve that very possibility. And the disturbingly positive side of the failure is that he presents something that is not bound to knowable aspects of human nature. That I think is what is modern about him—not that he needs psychoanalysis so much as that he is unlikely to believe anything the psychoanalyst tells him about his pain” ("Charles Altieri Homepage"). Hamlet is emotionally alone. Eventually, he learns to cope and work through things on his own. No one is ever there for him. Hamlet is illustrated as a strong individual, but everyone has a breaking point. At the commencement of the play, Hamlet has Ophelia, his mother, and his friends. Through all of his trials and tribulations, he gets lost along the way. He becomes so paranoid that he is rude to his true love, Ophelia, because he knows that it will throw off the enemy (King Claudius and Polonius). After the fact, he begins to sink deeper and deeper into his loneliness until he can not be rescued out of this grave that he has dug for himself. By the finale of the play, all he has left is Horatio. Horatio lives on to tell the …show more content…
Boys had less mental health knowledge and experience and higher mental health stigma than girls. In adjusted analyses, girls were twice as likely as boys to report willingness to use mental health services (odds ratio [OR] 2.45, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20–4.99). Parental disapproval and perceived stigma helped to explain the relationship between gender and willingness to use mental health services (OR 1.65, 95% CI .72–3.77)” (A CHANDRA and C MINKOVITZ, “Stigma Starts Early: Gender Differences In Teen Willingness To Use Mental Health Services”). Hamlet’s soliloquies are always extremely deep. He even contemplates suicide on occasion. These findings show that, at a young age, girls are two times more likely to be willing to use mental health services. Not only does this mean mental hospitals, but it also means counselors. Whenever a female has an issue, it is completely normal to watch them seek out help (whether that be from a friend, family member, or counselor). Hardly ever, though, does society see men in a counselor’s office. Imagine how things would have changed for Hamlet if he would have come clean to his mother or Ophelia and let them offer help. Maybe things would not have turned out the way that they did. Like in Hamlet, males parents tend to show disapproval whenever their son comes to them with problems. They are told to “man up”