To be (or not to be) isolated means that one is confined within barriers,.
The character Hamlet from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
experiences this kind of lonely isolation. Throughout the play, Hamlet becomes.
isolated from his family, friends, and society at large. He then attempts to.
contend with his alienation yet in the end he is not successful in overcoming his.
isolation to any extent. .
Hamlet becomes isolated from family, friends, and society: his mother, Queen.
Gertrude, girlfriend Ophelia, and homeland country, Denmark. First, Hamlet.
becomes isolated from his mother because she married his uncle Claudius shortly.
after his father was killed. Hamlet feels detached from her because she appears.
to have little grief over the death of her husband: .
Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--.
O God, a beast, that wants discourse of reason, .
Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,.
My father's brother, but no more like my father.
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,.
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears.
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,.
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post.
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!.
It is not, nor it cannot come to good. (Shakespeare 1.2.149-158).
Hamlet's melancholy over the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother.
both contribute to the feelings of isolation from his mother. He feels trapped.
inside his grief and woe, emotionally isolated. Next, Hamlet becomes isolated.
from his girlfriend Ophelia because she thinks he has gone crazy: "O, what a.
noble mind is here o"erthrown" (3.1.153). Also, in his lunacy, Hamlet becomes.
even more detached from Ophelia by insulting her: "Get thee to a nunnery".
(3.1.122). He tells her to go to a brothel, and calls her a harlot. Since she.
believes he has gone mad, and she is hurt by his insults, she becomes dejected.
and isolated from him. Finally, Hamlet is isolated from his society when he is sent.