Hamlet's Depression

Hamlet’s Depression Disillusionment. Depression. Despair. These are the burning emotions churning in young Hamlet’s soul as he attempts to come to terms with his father’s death and his mother’s incestuous, illicit marriage. While Hamlet tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered idealism, he consciously embarks on a quest to seek the truth hidden in Elsinore. Depression is an uncomfortable mental state that refers to a mood that in medicine …

…sincere. Hamlet’s soliloquy ends the Act with him passing from a point of extreme depression to a point where his confidence and motivation have built up. He justifies his inaction with a lack of evidence against the King and this results in an apparent resolution of his depression and anger. Hamlet’s character is presented very clearly in this text and allows the audience to better understand him as a character, and a person