What Is In-Depth Depression In Hamlet

In Hamlet’s first epilogue, Hamlet grieves the passing of his father and expresses his fury at the kingdom rather than explicitly declaring his contemplative state of suicide. The turmoil he encounters after the unforeseen death of his father and how hastily his mother and his uncle, his father’s brother, were so eager to marry “But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: / …and yet, within a month- -” (Shakespeare 1.2.142-149). Hamlet’s frustration and emotions pours from the depth of his inner soul.
The in-depth depression he suffers of his mother’s new impious relationship brings suicidal thoughts to Hamlet. He wishes his life to dissolve into oblivion to release him from his woe, but he is too firm “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt” and God had not banned suicide “the Everlasting had not fix’d / His canon ‘gainst …show more content…
His depression does not allow him to comprehend how his mother’s love for his father can essentially disappear immediately after his death to wed his uncle. “That is should come to this! / …So excellent a king; that was, to this,” (Shakespeare (1.2.141-142). Hamlet compares his father as “Hyperion” a titan to his uncle a “satyr” beastlike (Shakespeare 1.2.144). Hamlet continues to criticize his mother’s hasty marriage to an inferior person so soon after his father’s death. He laments and questions how conceivably the queen could marry someone completely contrary than that of the king, so suddenly after her loves death “O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, / Would have mourn’d longer- -married with my uncle, / My father’s brother, but not more like my father, / Than I to Hercules:” (Shakespeare 1.2.154-157). Hamlet contrasts that his uncle is no more comparable his father than he is to a Greek hero. Hamlets delved into his emotions and his wrath verbalized his inner soul but will hold his tongue even as his heart breaks (Shakespeare