In Hamlet Why was Hamlet depressed enough to even think of self destruction?

Answer 1

Hamlet's mood changes considerably thoughout the play. Early in the play he expresses disgust with the way the world goes, especially his mother's remarriage. "Oh, God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." Later he will express this same disgust to Gertrude. "Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty--"

With himself he is sometimes annoyed, sometimes disappointed. "Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, that I the son of a dear father murdered, prompted to my revenge by Heaven and Hell must, like a wh*re, unpack my words, and fall a-cursing like a very drab." and later "I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do' sith I have cause and will and strength and means to do't."

Hamlet never expresses the kind of stomach-churning disgust about himself that he does about Claudius and his mother's remarriage. He never loses confidence in himself or feels that he has ignored his moral compass. He can be contrasted with Macbeth who really does view himself with disgust.

Answer 2

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