Hamlet is truly suffering from a mental illness, Depression, because of his father’s death and it’s quite possible that he’s losing his sense of reality. In many cases Hamlet …show more content…
Hamlet’s sarcasm informs the reader how intellectual he is compared to others in the play. He is depressed because of his father’s death and is appalled by his mother’s decision to marry his uncle so hastily after her husband’s death. When Horatio enters, Hamlet with witty, says, “Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats,/ Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” (I.ii.187-188). Hamlet uses sarcasm to joke how the only reason why Horatio came to Denmark was because of his mother’s wedding and not the funeral. Hamlet’s sarcasm with this comment demonstrates his way of thinking; he is too focused on how he hates his uncle and that is the only thing on his mind. As humans, we are too caught up on the tragedy that happens in our lives that we miss out on everything else that goes on. Hamlet has done the same; his resentment allows him to solely think of