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Grief
Depression
Resistance to help
Paranoia
Rage
Vengeance
Impulsive and Irrational
Insanity
"A little more than kin and less than kind. / How is it that the clouds still hang on you? / Not so, my lord; I am too much in the sun" (1.2.67-69).
Hamlet is obviously distraught by his father's death and his mother's marriage and is being sarcastic with his uncle about his feelings.
" 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, <good> mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black, / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected havior of the visage, / Together with all forms, moods, [shapes] of grief, / That can <denote> me truly" (1.2.80-87). In this instance Hamlet is talking about his sadness and how his grief is in everything he does.
“O that this too, too sullied flesh would melt … break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue” (1.2.133-164). This is where hamlet is extremely angry at his mother because she remarried so quickly after his father’s death that he does not believe that she has given him enough time.
"How <weary,> stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world" (1.2.137-138)! Hamlet's depression in this scene is overwhelming as he contemplates killing himself.
"So excellent a king, that was to this / Hyperion to a satyr..." (1.2.143-144). This shows how much Hamlet admired his father, this admiration being a large cause of Hamlet's grief.
"My father's brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules" (1.2.157-158). Hamlet is depressed by how his mother could so quickly marry someone that is so unlike his father.
"The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. / Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven / Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio" (1.2.187-190)! Much of Hamlet's depression comes from him dwelling over his mother's hasty marriage to his uncle and it continues to build.
"He was a man. Take him for all in all, / I shall not look upon his like again" (1.2.195-196). Hamlet is trying to cover up his grief in this scene, as he says that his father was a great man, but it is nothing to dwell on.
"My father's spirit - in arm's! All is not well. / I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come" (1.2.277-278)! Because Hamlet is grief stricken he will do anything to help his father and when he sees him in arms he knows that he must help.
“Haste me to know‘t … revenge” (1.5.35-37). Here is the inciting moment for Hamlets quest for revenge and is a tipping point for his grief and madness. (Vengeful)
"Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat / In this distracted globe. Remember thee" (1.5.103-104). Hamlet's resistance to his friends led him to follow his father's ghost and come face to face with it not knowing what will happen.
“O most pernicious woman! … At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark” (1.5.112-116). Hamlet is enraged at the news that the ghost of his father gave him about his uncle Claudius and his mother. (Rage)
"No, you will reveal it. / Not I, my lord, by heaven. / Nor I, my lord. / How say you, then? Would heart of man once think it? / But you'll be secret" (1.5.130-135). Hamlet's paranoia is getting to him when he continually asks his friends to keep secrets, he should trust them, but he isn't.
"Never make known what you have seen tonight. / My lord, we will not. / Nay, but swear 't. / In faith, my lord, not I. / Nor I, my lord, in faith. / Upon my sword" (1.5.160-165). Hamlet's paranoia is again escalating as he goes so far as to make his friends swear on his sword that they won't reveal his secrets.
"And I beseech you instantly to visit / My too much changed son" (2.2.37-38). Hamlet's mother is so concerned about him (more about the royal image) that she is sending his friends to talk to him, this shows that he has been resisting his mother's help and help from his other friends.
"Heavens make our presence and our practices / Pleasant and helpful to him" (2.2.40-41)! Hamlet's friends are obviously wanting to help him and he is not letting them close to help him.
"No such matter. I will not sort you with the / rest of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended" (2.2.287-289). Hamlet knows that his friends have been sent to watch him and he is complaining because he does not want them to watch over him, he wants to resist any help.
"You were sent / for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks / which your modesties have not craft enough to color" (2.2.300-303). Hamlet's paranoia in this scene subtle, but still there because he knows his mother and uncle want to keep a look out on him so he will be suspicious of all his closest friends.
"I will tell you why … your smiling seem to say so” (2.2.316-334). When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are reporting to the king about Hamlets mental state he realizes the reason why they have come to talk to him and this causes him to become angry with them. (Rage)
“Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave … Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” (2.2.610-634). Hamlet is enraged at himself because he cannot bring himself to murder Claudius, who he believes murdered his father because of his father’s ghost. (Rage)
“Ay, so, good-bye to you … kindles villain” (2.2.575-620). When hamlet is blaming himself for him not being able to take revenge of his father he is driven to the brink of madness. He questions his resolve with life and almost is unable to continue any farther. (Insanity)
“Before mine uncle ... conscience of the king” (2.2.625-634). Hamlet before this point was unsure if his uncle was guilty so he had to think of a way to prove it and then he plunged deeper into madness. (Vengeful)
"To be or not to be - that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer" (3.1.64-65). Hamlet, at this point, has reached a peak of depression where he wants to kill himself.
"To die, to sleep - / To sleep, perchance to dream" (3.1.72-73). Hamlet's depression is so bad that he feels dieing will be a relief and he may be able to get away from the things he is feeling.
“Get thee <to> a nunnery … where’s your father?”(3.1.131-141). In his fear that if this goes wrong Claudius may come after Ophelia rather than trying to tell Ophelia kindly, instead of almost crushing her spirit with words even though he loves her. (Impulsive and irrational)
"Nay, do not think I flatter … in censure of his seeming” (3.2.59-92). Claudius’s fate was sealed when Hamlet decided to use this play to see if Claudius was guilty strengthening the resolve of his revenge. (Vengeful)
"Good my lord, what is your cause of / distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your / own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend" (3.2.365-367). Hamlet's friends now realize how he is pushing them away and they are concerned because they truly want to help him with whatever is wrong.
"Why, look at you know … you cannot play upon me” (3.2.393-402). Rather than trying to make peace with the two spies coming from the king, in order to not send any mixed signals to him, he acts impulsively and attacks the two of them letting them know that he knows what their plan is. (Impulsive and irrational)
"How now, a rat? Dead for a Ducat, Dead” (3.4.29). Here hamlet acts completely irrationally killing an innocent bystander who he could have saved if he had just looked behind the curtain rather than stabbing right through it killing Polonius rather than Claudius. (Impulsive and irrational)
"O me, what hast thou done? / Nay, I know not. Is it the King" (3.4.31-32). Hamlet's paranoia led to devastating consequences as be believed he had killed the King who he thought was spying, but it was really Polonius.
“A bloody deed – almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother” (3.4.34-35). In his insanity he broke his promise to his father that he would not hurt his mother in any way shape or form and he would protect her at all costs. Here his insanity has taken over and makes him accuse someone who may be innocent of his father’s murder. (Insanity)
"This was your husband. Look you now what follows. / here is your husband, like a mildewed ear / Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes" (3.4.73-75)? Hamlet thinks that he sees his father, but his mother cannot see him, so Hamlet's paranoia has reached dangerous levels. Usually others have seen the ghost and since his mother can't it is probably in Hamlet's mind.
“A king of shreds and patches … your gracious figure? (3.4.117-119) Hamlet falling into insanity is starting to see his father’s ghost in places where he is not, before he had multiple witnesses that the ghost was there however now only Hamlet is able to see the ghost. (Insanity)
"The body is with the King, but the King is not / with the body. The King is a thing -" (4.2.27-28). Hamlet has reached insanity at this point and is talking about how the body of Polonius is within the castle, but somewhere it can't be found, he is playing a sick game with them.
"In heaven. Send thither to see. If your mes- / senger find him not there seek him i' th' other place yourself" (4.3.37-39). Hamlet's rage toward the King in this scene is evident because he is basically mocking the King and telling him to go to hell.
"How all occasions do inform against me / And spur my dull revenge" (4.4.34-35). Hamlet's thoughts are completely consumed with revenge and everything that happens to him makes him think that he should be doing more to seek vengeance against the King.
"O, from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" (4.4.68-69)! This is an impulsive thought from Hamlet, he does not want to think of anything unless is has to do with violence and vengeance on the King. These thoughts may very well lead to impulsive and irrational actions.
“’Swounds … eat a crocodile” (5.1.290-294). Hamlet acting completely irrationally is talking out of his rage at Laertes; he takes the sacred occasion of a funeral for his lover and defiles it by starting a fight with her brother. (Impulsive and irrational)
“Give me your pardon sir … and hurt my brother” (5.2.240-258). Here Hamlet talking in third person and not referring to himself as I or me seems almost schizophrenic and has finally plunged to far into madness to ever come back. (Insanity)
“Here, thou incestuous <murd’rous,> damned Dane, drink off this potion” (5.2.352-353). Hamlet has finally completed his vengeance against his uncle the King of Denmark and now is almost at peace. (Vengeful)
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