Hamlet begins the play upset over his father’s death. He is also upset about his mother’s quick remarriage to his uncle, Claudius. It is hard for the audience to tell which he is actually more upset about. Claudius and the queen find Hamlets mourning excessive, and they confront him about it just prior to his first soliloquy. At this point the thought of suicide has already entered Hamlets mind, “Or that the Everlasting had not fix’ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” (S,10). This makes the reader think he is upset over his fathers death and let down by the world, which he is. He goes on to tell how great a man his father really was. He then begins talking about how quickly his mother remarried, “a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourn’d longer.” (S,11). This shows how upset he is in his mother. Eventua

Hamlets lack of decision making skills is further brought to the audiences attention in his “To be or not to be” speech. Hamlet is thinking about killing himself. “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the sling and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles” (S, 53). He is afraid of death, since he does not know what comes after life, “To die, to sleep; to sleep; perchance to dream. Ay, there the rub; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come” (S,53). He relates people bearing problems on earth and not committing suicide to him not killing Claudius, “…makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…” (S,53). He believes everyone stalls their actions when they stop to think about them.

The King and Queen send for two old friends of Hamlet’s, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They are supposed to find out why Hamlet is depressed. Hamlet knows they were sent for and tells them what they want to hear. He tells them that he has lost his happiness and he is in a state where everything seems worthless. He is let down by the world and it means nothing to him anymore, “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

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