Decay In Hamlet

Shakespeare's play Hamlet is a well known and has been overly discussed about throughout the world. Finding out just one theme of Hamlet has been an argument for a long time and many agree with me in saying that there isn't just one theme but many sub-themes that go on throughout the whole story. As I read the play, Hamlet, I was filled with many images that sparked my imagination and was mostly dark and dreadful. The imagery of disease, corruption, and decay contributes to the theme of death, and decay. The aura of tragedy is present from the beginning to the end of the play; the only slight reprieve of the dark mood comes in the Gravediggers' scene, but even the comedy of this scene is morbid. The play immediately starts out with this evil
" O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew (I, II, 130)" and "seems to me all the uses of this world... tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed. Things rank gross in nature posses it merely (I, II, 136). The imagery of the unweeded garden in his soliloquy symbolizes the fall from a state of perfection and order. Hamlet explains that his dark clothes and other external signs of mourning are nothing in comparison with what he feels in his heart. He is disgusted with life, and the world appears to him "weary, stale, flat, and, unprofitable," a place fit for only those who are gross and ill of nature. Hamlet longs to die and wishes that suicide were not a sin. He is outraged by his mother's hasty marriage to his
This is one of the most famous lines in Hamlet and is shows that Horatio is worried. The wake of King Hamlet's death makes Horatio think that the ghost must mean something bad for the entire state of Denmark. And he thinks the ghost as an omen of bad times ahead for Denmark; in the earlier scene Horatio reminds the others of the unnatural phenomena that preceded Julius Caesar's assassination. "The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead did squeak an gibber in the roman streets. (I, I, 119)" Horatio and Marcellus are convinced that this is not good and decide to go after Hamlet who followed the