"Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!"(Act 1, Scene 2, © 2016 SparkNotes LLC, All Rights Reserved)
Hamlet views suicide as the means of relieving the pain of what the person is going to through. But, the way suicide is viewed during that time was not a good one. Committing suicide was a sin that did not take you to heaven. Humanity would criticize the one who committed suicide; and plus if a person commits suicide, they would not have a Christian burial.
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They were the ones to easily break and have a weak mindset when it came to character. Hamlet also set his mother in this view, because of what she did. After a month of the death of Hamlet's father, the mother laid in bed with Hamlet's uncle and married him. Hamlet called this being weak and treacherous, causing him to view other women in the same light.
"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 sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors."(Act 2, Scene 2, © 2016 SparkNotes LLC, All Rights Reserved)
We see Hamlet explain depression in a visionary way. The world starts to change in the eyes of a person who falls into a depressive mind, The feelings that they once had dropped into the dullness of feeling nothing and the world they once thought was beautiful, was nothing but a terrible illusion. Hamlet starts to see the world beyond the mask instead of the illusion; the depression made him start to think deeply about how the world is. Even though it may seem bad to start to lose what you once felt and start to see things in the dull light, it still pushes the person to view things in a grey instead …show more content…
There are the ones who want to sleep forever, but could never commit the deed because they fear what awaits them once their eyes are closed. The feeling of unknown causes them to live the life of suffering because they fear the effects of eternal sleeping. Hamlet starts speaking about the depths of the truth on why others stick to a life of suffering instead of ending it.
"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?"(Act 3, Scene 1, © 2016 SparkNotes LLC, All Rights Reserved)
Why deal with the harshness of the world when you can just end it all? It is as easy as one, two, three. Hamlet starts going on about how other's rather deal with that harshness instead of ending it. He states how it is so easy to take it all away in under a second, but the people rather not. The suffering pushes and pushes us over the edge of wanted to just jump off that