The most prominent genre in the play is revenge and vengeance, however, Hamlet’s indecisiveness causes self-conflict depicted through his madness. As AC Bradely wrote Hamlet was in ‘a state of profound melancholy’ with himself and external factors. Hamlet felt as if “Denmark is a prison” a metaphor expressing his helplessness in successfully seeking revenge and his emotional chains contemplating the aftermath of committing a sin. Hamlet’s tug a war with himself can be directly linked to the imbalance in Act 1. Marcellus states “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”, foreshadowing the evil behavior and decay which has caused chaos throughout the kingdom. Hamlet cements this through the use of the metaphor ‘an unweeded garden’ as corruption
