Hamlets Deteriorating World View By Iman Kazerani MadnessInsanity

Hamlet’s Deteriorating World View By: Iman Kazerani

Madness/Insanity: “As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/To put an antic disposition on. . . ” (I. v. 172173)

Revenge: “Does it not, think’st thee, stand me now upon-/He that hath kill’d my king, and whored my mother; . . . is’t not perfect conscience/To quit him with this arm? ” (V. ii. 64 -68)

Death: “How long will a man lie I’ the earth ere he rot? ” (V. i. 158)

Unweeded Garden: “Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, /That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/Possess it merely. ” (I. ii. 135 -137)

Honour: “Rightly to be great/Is not to stir without great argument, /But greatly to find quarrel in a straw/When honour’s at the stake. ” (IV. iv. 52 -55)

Uncontrolled/Overacting Mind: “Wormwood, wormwood. ” (III. ii. 177)

Women: “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (I. ii. 145)

Incestuous Relationship: "This was your husband. Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, and batten on this moor? " (III. iv. 65 -69).

Suicide: “To be, or not to be: that is the question. . . ” (III. i. 57)

Premeditation (absence and presence): “How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!/[Hamlet makes a pass through the arras. ]” (III. iv. 25 -26)