To What Extent Do You Sympathise With The Character Of Hamlet ?

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To What Extent Do You Sympathise With The Character Of Hamlet ?

Hamlet is a character who has had much to deal with physiologically in the small space of time referred to within the play.

At the beginning of the play his father, the king of Denmark is cruelly murdered by his uncle, who then almost immediately marries his mother Gertrude. Hamlet dispieses them both greatly for this impromptus, untimely marriage; 'The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables'. We soon hear of Hamlet's first contemplation of suicide, an indication of just how badly these events have affected his mental state and reasoning; ' Or that the everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God, God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world'.

Even before his encounter with the ghost of his late father, who brings news of his murderous uncle, Shakespeare uses Hamlet's first soliloquy to create the feeling of his disgust for the couple; 'O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer - married with my uncle.'

Soon after Hamlet strikes