Hamlet's Pessimistic Exercises

Standing at the precipice of the valley of shadows, Hamlet stresses over throwing himself in. He is disturbed by his mother’s quick marriage to Claudius and expresses this through a fickle attitude. Hamlet in a pessimistic view, also gives thought to taking his life because of the burden on it. With crestfallen suicide and misanthropic attitude at the forefront of his mind, Hamlet exercises all the characteristics of a melancholic human being.
Hamlet’s melancholic diagnoses starts with his mother's quick marriage to Claudius. Hamlet acknowledges he is having difficulty when he anxiously states, “good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,” (I.ii. 279-282) Hamlet confronts
After speaking with his mother about the internal difficulties he has, Hamlet tells her “How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (I. ii. 337-338) Hamlet questioning the worth of the world and his life paints his interpretations of it in a pessimistic light, a key component to the melancholic humor. Then Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother is worried about Hamlet and asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to visit “My too much changed son,”(II.ii.1121). Hamlet at this point was unsociable to his mother and the rest of the court which sparked Gertrude to send the two to see how Hamlet was. Hamlet pulling himself away from social contact with the people of the court is one of the melancholic attributes of unsociable. As further proof that Hamlet is melancholic, the famous line which he spoke “To be, or not to be - that is the question” (III.i.1749), indicates that Hamlet is reflecting upon suicide. The rigid moody belief Hamlet has is that he does not want to bear the burden of life which is the key aspect of the humor melancholic, a distaste and negative view of the world around