Once again, he dwells on her enseam'd bed/ Stew'd in corruption (III, iv, 92-93). ... (III, iv, 182). ... However, during the nunnery scene, when Ophelia tries to return Hamlet's gifts, he retorts I never gave you aught, (III, i, 97) and he goes on to tell her, I loved you not (III, i, 119). ... Gertrude called this a rash and bloody deed (III, iii, 27). ... In his melancholy state, Hamlet can only see this as something which makes [them] traduc'd and tax'd of other nations (I, iii, 18). ...

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Depression, melancholy, disillusionment, and disconnectedness 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; this mission of Hamlet's is in stark contrast to Claudius' fervent effort to obscure the truth of King Hamlet's murder. The question of Hamlet's sanity is irrelevant, but instead his melancholy dispositi...

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• Grade Level: High School