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The Ways In Which Individuals Struggle to Restore Honor and Certainty:…
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He disregards the uncertainty of ghost's motives etc. for his certainty that the ghost can't harm him, and for his desire to know what happened to his father #
Hamlet is ready to take action immediately after Ghost claims to be his murdered father, "Haste me to know : ’t, that I, with wings as swift/As meditation or the thoughts of love,/May sweep to my revenge. (1.5, 29-31) #
When a person is seeking certainty and validation, they may react impulsively to suggestions of that certainty, for they like to hear and accept what they want to hear. #
admits/claims that he is feigning madness (3.4, 190-195)
assuming this is true, it shows the lengths people will go to to restore certainty #
The projection of uncertainty: Hamlet is outraged at his mother and projects the uncertainty of G's love for King H onto Ophelia #
If one's life unravels in one area, it may cause a chain reaction that affects other areas of one's life due to their emotional(often irrational) action in response to this conflict #
O good Horatio, I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound. Didst perceive? (3.2, 60-61) #
May be the devil, and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me. (2.2, 561-565)
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But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave’s offal. (2.2, 538-541) #
Hamlet finds motivation (to hate on himself) in seeing the actions and courage of others #
Actors feigning sadness and emotion #
Naval army risking lives for small cause #
certainties of death and mortality become his preoccupation rather than the uncertainties of life #
who would choose to live this life if they weren't afraid of dying… “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, (3.1, 84) #
uncertainty of the afterlife #
interesting bc H speaks seems as though this holds him back from suicide, but his last line, "the rest is silence" shows that he has confidence that the afterlife is peaceful/ a silent sleep #
to cope with inevitable circumstances, choose to believe in favorable reality; it is only when H knows that he is dying that he kills C, only when he is dying that he decides to belive he will find peace in death #
“To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.” (3.1,) #
Gravedigger scene/ Yorick's skull: the commonality and certainty of death is a turning point for Hamlet; a confirmation of the questions that have hindered H. #
The graveyard is the antithesis of the castle. evidence: Alexander the great(palace) -> barrel bung(graveyard)
ALSO:in palace, C tells H to move on and stop remembering the dead, but it is only when H really comes to a mature understanding/reflection of death and dead ones, that he can finally have certainty and act with it #
his grief, as reflected in his actions and in part by his clothing (although it's interesting to note how Hamlet's clothes throughout the play represent a show of emotion, though not necessarily true emotion) #