... the world to be empty and lifeless, dirty and diseased, and his particular place in it to be desolate and lonely. Indeed, he feels so isolated and entrapped in his native land that he says " Denmark's a prisonin which there are many confines, wards, dungeons" (II. ii.264-6). These feelings of loneliness and isolation are common to those people suffering from melancholy ... by the passion of sorrow. His mother begs him to cast his nighted colour off."6 She cannot begin to comprehend her son's emotional state and therefore takes it much more lightly than she should. Due to her inability t...

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