1. Hamlet's Malcontent
In defining the malcontent from the Shakespearean era, Christine Gomez writes that "The malcontent mood in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama may be traced to the political, economic, social and intellectual conditions of the age."1 Politically, Hamlet feels left down and put aside for the crown. ... Equal to other malcontent characters of the age, "Hamlet [...] is a bitter critic of the society in the midst of which he is placed."9 As other malcontents do, he "[...] finds expression in the form of bitter self-abuse, both in soliloquies, like Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I. ... (IV. i...
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- Grade Level: High School