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This is a 5 page paper discussing the psychological state of Hamlet at the beginning of the play and how this may have lead to some of his actions. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark undergoes a great many psychological transitions throughout the play. While Hamlet eventually falls into madness and acts out his revenge, he begins the play in a state of depression over the death of his father and anger over the early remarriage of his mother to his uncle. When he returns to Denmark he is experiencing various aspects of grief, sadness and classic melancholy which are for him personal in nature and which he might have eventually overcome if not for the additional traumatic shock of seeing his father’s ghost and finding out that he was murdered by his uncle. At this point, already psychologically venerable in a state of depression, Hamlet’s mental state becomes one of irritability, disjointed thought, and impulsiveness which lead to his further state of despair, revenge and eventually being responsible for five deaths of which he seemingly had no self control.
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revenge, he begins the play in a state of depression over the death of his father and anger over the early remarriage of his mother to his uncle. When he
returns to Denmark he is experiencing various aspects of grief, sadness and classic melancholy which are for him personal in nature and which he might have eventually overcome if not
for the additional traumatic shock of seeing his fathers ghost and finding out that he was murdered by his uncle. At this point, already psychologically venerable in a state of
depression, Hamlets mental state becomes one of irritability, disjointed thought, and impulsiveness which lead to his further state of despair, revenge and eventually being responsible for five deaths of which
he seemingly had no self control. At the beginning of Shakespeares Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, it is not surprising to the readers that
he is depressed by the death of his father the King, and upset because of the quick marriage of his mother to his uncle, Claudius. However, Hamlet seems depressed to
a much deeper level as he admits early on that "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed,
it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights me not; nor woman neither, [sigh]" (1.3.303).
During the Elizabethan age, melancholy was considered not only an aspect of the mind but of the body as well. Hamlet is overcome
by a severe case of melancholy and this affects him physically. The study of melancholy by Laurentius has found that the melancholy man is out of heart, fearful and trembling,
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