Hamlet’s Deteriorating World View

1. Hamlet’s Deteriorating World View By: Iman Kazerani

2. Madness/Insanity: “As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/To put an antic disposition on...” (I.v.172-173)

3. 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)

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

5. 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)

6. 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)

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

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

9. 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).

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

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