Hamlet Essay

It comes over you like a weight, dropping, falling on your soul, weighting you down, and corroding past the happiness. Depression appears for many different reason, and comes with many different symptoms. Hamlet, a play by William Shakespeare, is the tragic story of a young princes journey of self-discovery as he struggles to overcome the tragic occurrences in his life his father murdered by his uncle, and his mother who incestuously marries the killer. Hamlet is plagued with the responsibility of avenging his fathers death, and place right the kingdom of Denmark, all while suffering from a severe melancholia.Hamlet acts crazy in an effort to fool people into letting their guards down, allowing him to explore out revenge. Hamlet is depressed, mourning the loss of his father and his mothers betrayal. While Hamlets feeling causes him to act out of character, acting on impulse, his madness is just a pretense to cover his true motives. Hamlets madness only manifests itself when he is in the presence of certain characters his office to use logic and reasoning reinforces his sanity.In mourning, Hamlet dresses in all black, refusing to celebrate his mothers wedding, and his uncles coronation. The recent events have caused Hamlet to lapse into a depression grief has overwhelmed his spirit, he feels alone and betrayed by his mother. He cannot come to terms with his mothers actions he does not understand how she could so quickly block his father and marry his uncle. So in conclusion Shakespeares play Hamlet and its main protagonists sanity are heretofore subject to question. And I suppose we will never know the truth of the well being of Hamlets mind.