FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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stop dressing in black
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stop being so depressed
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off/ and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark./ Do not forever with thy veiled lids/ seek for thy noble father in the dust.” Gertrude wants hamlet to get over his fathers death and start to accept Claudius as the new king of Denmark, and as his new father.
Detailed explanation-2: -All these are depressive symptoms and he has experienced events likely to precipitate depression: his father’s sudden death, his mother’s hasty marriage, and his disappointment in the succession. Hamlet is not just a typical Elizabethan melancholy man.
Detailed explanation-3: -“that the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon against self-slaughter” – Hamlet He is so depressed that he contemplates suicide, but won’t go through with it because it’s a sin. “Frailty, thy name is woman” – Hamlet, soliloquy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet’s grief for his father is profound and compounded by a sense of having to hide it. He’s also feeling an indifference that is a classic symptom of depression. Left alone, he exclaims, ‘How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!’