Mental Downfalls in Hamlet
The role of evil and self destruction is very evident in “Hamlet”. The play revolves around, evil breeding evil and eventually leading to psychological, emotional and moral ruins. This ruin ultimately leads to the devastating physical ruin at the end of King Hamlet’s words to Hamlet lead him down a path of insanity. Shakespeare foreshadows this at the beginning of the play when Horatio warns Hamlet about seeing What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o’er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty, or reason And draw you into madness? (I, iiii, 69-74) These words of wisdom from Horatio become reality and the ghost of Hamlet’s father does tempt Hamlet and eventually leads him over a cliff of self destruction and complete madness. Hamlets psycological state quickly changes from a down to earth scholar as he is perceived at the beginning of the play to a disturbed confused man as the play goes on. This is mainly shown in his actions towards his lover Ophellia. As Ophe
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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Ophellia Ophellia,
Gertrude Hamlet,
King Hamlet’s,
Rosencrantz Guidenstren,
Ophelia Hamlet’s,
Rosencrantz Guildenstern,
Hamlet England,
Mental Downfalls,
King Hamlet,
Claudius Gertrude,
father’s death,
marriage claudius,
beginning play,
ruin play,
self destruction,
rosencrantz guildenstern,
mother’s marriage,
ghost hamlet’s father,
incestuous marriage,
hamlet’s father,
act insanity,
emotional moral ruins,
ophellia’s death act,
psychological emotional moral,
death act insanity,
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Approximate Word count = 1320
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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