Hamlet: Emotions of Despair, Sadness, Anger, and Inner Peace :: Shakespeare Hamlet Essays

small town Emotions of Despair, Sadness, Anger, and Inner Peace          The character of Prince Hamlet, in Shakespeares Hamlet, displaysmany loyal yet confirm emotions. For instance, in Hamlets To be Or NotTo Be soliloquy, perhaps one of the most swell up known quotes in the sidelanguage, Hamlet actu every(prenominal)y debates suicide. His despondency, sorrow, elicit andinner peace are all justifiable emotions for this troubled character.         Hamlets feeling of hopelessness towards his life and to the worlddevelops as the play moves on. In Hamlets first soliloquy he reveals thathis despair has dictated him to thoughts of suicide How weary (horrible) His law gainst self slaughter. Likewise, when Hamlet talks to his friends,Rosenerantz and Guildenstern in Act 2 motion-picture show 2, Hamlet wishes they tell theKing and hassock that he has lost all mirth, in this world so tight andpestilent. In his To b e or not to be soliloquy, he expresses his despairthrough thoughts of suicide, suggesting that suicide is an easy way to endlifes conflicts. But fortuitously he concludes that the fear of an unknownafterlife is what keeps us living. All of Hamlets thoughts of despair canbe understood when one looks at the horrible conflicts Hamlet goes through.         Sorrow, perhaps the most evident emotion, is very well developed end-to-end the play. Initially, the only cause of Hamlets sorrow is hisfathers death. However, after reading Act 1, scene 2, we see in Hamletsasides that another source of his melancholy is his mothers hasty jointureto Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Further, when Queen Gertrude asks herson why his fathers death seems so important, he replies, Seems, madam?Nay it is. I know not seems. In addition, Shakespeare reveals anothersource of sadness now Hamlet is alone, with the most love character inhis life, Ophelia, rejecting him. This cau se is well brought out inHamlets soliloquy in which he states Now I am alone. O, what a blushing mushroom andpeasant slave am I Finally, when Hamlet discovers that Ophelia has died,new reasons for Hamlets ingrained feelings of sorrow are added. In fact, hissorrow is so great that twoscore thousand brothers/Could not (with all theirquantity of love) Make up my sum. Thus, Hamlets well developed sadness,is reasonable throughout the play. Unfortunately, Hamlets thoughts ofmourning are replaced by those of anger.         most readers of Hamlet agree, to some extent or another, thatHamlet is well justified in expressing anger. Perhaps the first incident ofHamlets true expression of anger is during his scene with the ghost in Act