Hamlet

We might say that one of the ways in which Hamlet tries to understand the world is through academic endeavors. After all, he is a scholar who has recently returned from his studies. However, upon returning from college, Hamlet finds Denmark to be in a rotten state. His father is dead, and his mother has married her brother-in-law before the funeral meats are cleared. Thus, Hamlet begins to understand the world through a depression regarding his mother’s seemingly insensitive actions “How weary, flat, unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world” (Shakespeare I.ii.1074).

Hamlet’s depression is assuaged by the vision of his father’s ghost. After explaining he was murdered, Hamlet’s depression is replaced by pain, anger, and the contemplation of the metaphysical. When Horatio tells him the vision of his father is a strange thing, Hamlet says to then welcome it like a stranger “Horatio, / There are more things in heaven and earth, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (Shakespeare II.i.1080).

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