Theme Of Loss In Hamlet

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Intertwined Troubles The complexity of the human brain is a puzzle that is not easily understood, but to some the puzzle fits together like a mosaic. The psychology of loss is necessary to recognize how the mind works during hard times. Loss is broken down into five stages, those stages are denial and isolation, anger, bargaining and acceptance. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet Hamlet and Gertrude’s personalities/actions apply to the human experience including the stages of grief and difficult decisions. Imagination can bring out the most in people’s capability, yet it has had the power to bring joy to sorrow. In Hamlet the main character Hamlet watched a somber play that featured a player named Hecuba. Though the play was “...fiction” and had …show more content…

When I was 10 years old, my father Jason Tourville died in a car accident. He fell asleep while driving up to our house in Forest Ranch. Only a week later my mother got together with one of her friends, Steven. She said she cared about my father, but she seemed to have moved on quickly. My mother had already made plans with him about the future. Shakespeare was far from a modern day psychologist, yet he seemed to have known a lot about it. Both my mother and I were in the stages of grief about my father’s death. She was more in denial, she tried to replace him and act like nothing happened. Which could be the reasoning for Gertrude's actions. Though Hamlet’s situation was more dramatic, I found myself question things like he did. I was increasingly sorrowful and feeling cheated out of my own life. I couldn't tell my mother how I felt, because I cared about her too much to make her feel worse. Whether elderly or young, intelligent or not we are all intertwined as a species. Shakespeare’s literature is proof that even back in the 1600s people still reacted the same as they do today. The stages of loss can occur in anyone and influence people to do things they wouldn’t normally do. It is found that though decisions can be even more complex under these

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