How Does Shakespeare Present Hamlet's Emotions

The text of Hamlet by William Shakespeare incorporates several aspects occurring at once. Prince Hamlet struggles internally with the stress of his family. Many factors cause the reader to pause and reflect on Hamlet’s emotions to view their validity. Hamlet expresses his disgust in his mother’s relationship with his uncle and portrays his perspective. The audience can feel empathetic toward Hamlet and gain trust in his actions because of the steps he takes to defend his father’s honor. The rich language and form describes one of the largest conflicts of the text. Hamlet presents his thoughts to the audience in his various soliloquies throughout the play. He tugs at the heart strings of the audience by expressing his deep contempt and anger against his mother’s relationship. Prince Hamlet expresses his deepest emotions through reflections of the daily conflict he faces against his mother and uncle’s relationship, through the use of rancid and intricate descriptions of his frustrations. Correspondingly, Prince Hamlet proves the extreme of his distraught and disgust through his descriptive emotions. Hamlet shows the sentiments …show more content…
Prince Hamlet takes his mind to somewhere no one usually wanders to by saying, “o, most wicked speed, to post/ with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (Shakespeare 11). He claims that his mother was in such a rush to marry so that she could engage in intimacy with his uncle. For him to state that there is incest and that his mother has dexterity, proves a creepy element. It makes Hamlet seem possessive over his mother, that he would involve himself in thinking about her intimate relationship with her uncle. The reader can see the effects of an Oedipal complex occurring. The mood shifts from anger and feeling empathy toward Hamlet in his soliloquy, to feeling eerie as to Prince Hamlet’s obsession with his mother and her love