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suffering - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Black imagery link to melancholy, what we would interpret as depression
    - - remarrage context, Hamlet just can't move on because of his devotion to his father.
  - - - garden of eden reference
        
        Suffering caused by women, his mother and ophelia
      - "One may smile and smile and be a villian- at least it may be so in denmark"
    - - The ghost makes him mad, which causes his actions that eventually result in everyone he loves being killed
  - - - Lots of ambiguity/ antithetical statements.... "and so I am revenged vs This is not revenge" even on the ghost: "Honest ghost vs Damned ghost"
        
        Why he does not kill Claudoius, because he is unsure and indecisive
      - Being an instrument is what makes him suffer
        
        MACK: He believes he is "born to set it right" but feels he has no certainty/ control
        
        Not over his actions in life because of the context of revenge killing, and not over his soul after death
        
        unlike other tragic heros his situation is not of his own making, because of his inherited position he cannot "carve" for himself, he HAS to be king, he HAS to avenge, he CANNOT marry ophelia. He is never given the option to be an agent
        
        Can't reconscile his own actions to religion
        
        Alexander: he is aware that more than one set of answers exist
        
        Can argue that no, it is just confused because there is no clear situation that can result in no one getting hurt
        
        Hamlet's emotional nature is his most defining feature, and we know he feels enormous guilt
      - Freud
      - "I loved ophelia" vs his previous actions towards her
        
        he lashes out, "daggers"
- - - - "Nunnery"
        
        She suffers in order to illustrate Hamlet's madness
        
        She's a foil to it, contrasts his insanity with her innocence. purity. He must be mad to say such untrue things/ he must be mad to treat someone he "loved as the stars have fires" in such a cruel way
        
        Shakesphere treats her as a plot device
        
        Hamlet just lashes out at her
        
        reuns her reputation because he wants her to suffer
        
        Woman chastity and purity context
        
        Ernest jones: Hamlet can not forgive a woman the rejection of his sexual advances, nor less her alliance with another man
        
        In the case of ophelia is true. He may be taking out his anger at his mother's perceived promiscuity on her, or he's projecting his own guilt at betraying his father by lack of action onto her, and pusnishg her for what he despises in himself