How Does Hamlet Fall Into the Pit of Despair?
How does Hamlet fall into the pit of despair in Act 1?
Hamlets soliloquy reveals a whole range of captivated emotions. These emotions are all released at the same time leaving him slightly suicidal.
We are shown that he is profoundly upset, mostly by what his mother has done as throughout the act, Hamlet’s anger and obsession over his mother’s sexuality is illustrated through negative words.
“Frailty, thy name is woman”; shows that he views woman as the weaker sex but also can mean that he thinks his mother was defenceless in this situation. Hamlets seems to be more disgusted in his mothers lack of grief on the matter than the idea of her being wed to his uncle which is shown by: “Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears”, this is an example of how Hamlet see’s his mum as being insincere with her short term sorrow.
These angry pronouncements show us the extent of his rage, aswell as the unflattering comparisons given between his father and uncle, such as: “so excellent a king that was to his Hyperion to a satyr”, this is a clear indication of Hamlets feelings towards Claudius as a satyr is a creature that is half human half horse and was commonly associated with people that have a disorderly violent nature. He went on further to compare himself to Niobe, a figure from Greek mythology who wept so much from genuine grief that the gods turned her into a spring. Not only is this a comparison to himself but also to his mother as it’s an example of what true mourning should be. This quote also gives us insight on the extent of his woe as the simile implies that he’s no longer at early stages of despair.
Hamlet’s overwhelming grief for his father and disgust with his mother affect the way he views the world, “an unweeded garden that grows to seed.” Expresses how he thinks that people are bad and that the offspring shall too be bad. He describes it as “rank,” a word which is used several times in the play. It conveys the sense of something overgrown and
Hamlets soliloquy reveals a whole range of captivated emotions. These emotions are all released at the same time leaving him slightly suicidal.
We are shown that he is profoundly upset, mostly by what his mother has done as throughout the act, Hamlet’s anger and obsession over his mother’s sexuality is illustrated through negative words.
“Frailty, thy name is woman”; shows that he views woman as the weaker sex but also can mean that he thinks his mother was defenceless in this situation. Hamlets seems to be more disgusted in his mothers lack of grief on the matter than the idea of her being wed to his uncle which is shown by: “Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears”, this is an example of how Hamlet see’s his mum as being insincere with her short term sorrow.
These angry pronouncements show us the extent of his rage, aswell as the unflattering comparisons given between his father and uncle, such as: “so excellent a king that was to his Hyperion to a satyr”, this is a clear indication of Hamlets feelings towards Claudius as a satyr is a creature that is half human half horse and was commonly associated with people that have a disorderly violent nature. He went on further to compare himself to Niobe, a figure from Greek mythology who wept so much from genuine grief that the gods turned her into a spring. Not only is this a comparison to himself but also to his mother as it’s an example of what true mourning should be. This quote also gives us insight on the extent of his woe as the simile implies that he’s no longer at early stages of despair.
Hamlet’s overwhelming grief for his father and disgust with his mother affect the way he views the world, “an unweeded garden that grows to seed.” Expresses how he thinks that people are bad and that the offspring shall too be bad. He describes it as “rank,” a word which is used several times in the play. It conveys the sense of something overgrown and