These feelings of loneliness and isolation are common to those people suffering from melancholy and/or depression. ... He thinks of himself as appointed, or cursed, to set things right himself."12 Hamlet has a sense of what should and should not be done by himself as well as by those surrounding him, yet he clearly "struggles vainly to overcome the predicament in which he finds himself in [...]."13 Hamlet knows that he will suffer consequences whatever course he chooses to take, however Hamlet cannot decide a plan that can save him from his melancholic flaw, and at the same time, dismiss himse...

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