Hamlet's Internal Conflict of Battling Anger and Depression
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- Wanting to Die
- O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew
- Sad and Angry at His Mother's Marriage
- She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
- Rage at His Mother's Actions
- O most pernicious woman!O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
- Claudius and Gertrude have finished talking to Hamlet in Act 1 Scene II. After everyone leaves the stage but Hamlet, he recites his first soliloquy in which the first thing he says is that he wishes he could die. He wants to die because he is depressed about his fathers death and because he feels alone in his mourning.
- "Denmark's a prison."
- Denmark's a prison
- Then the world is one
- At the end of Hamlet's first soliloquy, he expresses his sadness and also his anger that his mother married his uncle not even two months after his father's death. He is angry that she was so quick to sleep with his uncle which would have been considered incest at that time period.
- Depression and Hopelessness
- In Act 1, Scene V, after the Ghost explains that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father, he leaves Hamlet by himself. Hamlet vows to avenge his father's death by getting revenge on Claudius. He also vows to get revenge on his mother which is against the ghost's command. Hamlet is very mad at his mother in this scene.
- Self Hatred
- But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall
- In Act 2, Scene II, Hamlet calls Denmark a prison in his conversation with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He says this because his mother and uncle want him to stay in the country and because he is being tormented by the depressed things that are going on in the country. He is also depressed and angry by the fact that nobody is being honest with him.
- A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o' th' worst
- In Act 2, Scene II, Hamlet gets Guildenstern to admit that they were sent by the king. After he admits this, Hamlet begins explaining to them how "the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory", which is a big ugly rock. He also says, "the air...appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors." He then states that man is a "quintessence of dust". This demonstrates how depressed Hamlet is an how he has no hope in the world.
- At the end of Act 2, Scene II, Hamlet recites his second soliloquy. He admires the actors ability to portray emotions and insults himself for not showing equally passionate emotions about his father's death. He hates himself for being a coward and not being quicker to carry out his revenge(he lacks gall).
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