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Melancholy and hamlet
Title: Melancholy and hamlet
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1021 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Melancholy and hamlet
Melancholy and Hamlet
In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is greatly affected in his thoughts and
his actions by his ever changing state of melancholy. Melancholia is a medical term categorized by extreme
depression, apathy, and withdrawal. Hamlet gives in to this illness and throughout the play he shows several
characteristics of it. Hamlet being so self-centered steers him away from performing the vigorous duties he has been
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…showed last 75 words of 1021 total…absorbed in different emotions and moods that are
currently affecting him, such as the rage of his father’s death followed by the happy occasion of the players’ visit to
the castle. Hamlet will not permit his plans to be changed or delayed, except by himself, in order to remain in control
of his own fate. As you can see, each of his decisions and actions was determined and, partially, predicted by his
melancholic nature.
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