Hamlet’s Deteriorating World ViewBy: Iman Kazerani

Madness/Insanity:

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

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)