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. ... (IV. iv. 34)"10 This type of self-condemnation is also shared among literary malcontents. ...

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