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Discuss the presentation of Hamlet

Hamlet is depressed and disillusioned with life "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world"; he feels it is full of disease and corruption. The soliloquy is effective in portraying Hamlet's thoughts. As its broken rhythm shows Hamlet's fragmented thoughts and confused state of mind.
             Overall, this soliloquy shows profound disillusion and disgust with his mother, with women and with life. His mother's short almost non-existent period of mourning torments him. It is later commented on by Ophelia that neither her father nor Hamlet's were properly mourned, "which bewept to the grave did not go with true-love showers". His revulsion is so intense he thinks of suicide. Hamlet comes across as a very emotional and unstable character. He is clearly not the typical central character of a revenge tragedy which have resolute men of action. This contrasts to Shakespeare's slant on a revenge tragedy. The revenge tragedy was already popular with Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences so Shakespeare was reworking an established genre, developing and challenging the conventions of the genre.
             When Hamlet is informed of his father's appearance he is cautious. He tests Horatio saying "his beard was grizzled-no?". He immediately agrees to watch for the ghost. Hamlet is not sure it really is his father "My father's spirit" or if a spirit has taken on his father's appearance, "if it assume my noble father's person". By the end of this scene Hamlet feels unease and impatience he already suspects "foul play". When Hamlet learns the truth of his father's murder and his mother's betrayal his initial reaction is one of instant commitment. He vows to take quick revenge "May sweep to my revenge". .
             When Hamlet is left alone his soliloquy reflects his determination and passion to revenge his father's murder. Hamlet makes a punning reference to the confusion in his head "while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe".


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