Topic > . “He also prohibits with a lack of sympathy Hamlet's pain which is even more accentuated than that of the queen." Even Hamlet's dead father shows no sympathy for Hamlet's pain. His father, the man Hamlet admired and admired, does not let him go, so it is no wonder that he feels lonely and seems depressed. We don't want to see Hamlet as a sick character, but as a human being who succumbs to pain. “Hamlet is always aware of the frenetic role he plays and is always lucid when he is with Horatio.” Therefore Hamlet could not be mad. The rest of the sick people are there. When someone goes through the grieving process, they depend on a little sympathy. And sympathy is not something Hamlet receives from everyone around him; not even his mother offers any sympathy. There are signs of an Oedipus complex in Hamlet's soliloquy in Act I, Scene II. Furthermore, throughout the play he constantly worries about his mother's sexual appetite. I think Kirsch explains this perfectly by stating, “There is every reason indeed for a son to be troubled and decomposed by the appetite of a mother who betrays the memory of his father by her incestuous marriage within a month, to his brother, and murderer, and there is certainly more than one reason for a son to be obsessed for a certain period by a father who literally returns from the grave to haunt him.” Among these people, in this environment where no one seems to have any sympathy, Hamlet has Ophelia, the woman he loves. But, due to the death of her father, Ophelia feels the same pain as Hamlet. Hamlet, however, loses Ophelia first because of her bad behavior and then because of her untimely death. Because of Hamlet's consideration of his mother and his disloyalty to his father, Hamlet's indignation spills over to Ophelia but not without a logical cause. Ophelia herself denies the affection she feels towards Hamlet, not only in Hamlet but in herself. "His rejection of her seems to be a kind of mirror of his mother's betrayal and this denies him the possibility of even considering the experience of loving and being loved by a woman." he loved Ophelia and was extremely hurt by her rejection. As he says in Scene I of Act V, line 262, "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love compensate my sum." However, in Ophelia's character we see real signs of depression. Ophelia is so consumed by grief that she goes mad and then commits suicide. Although Hamlet's friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are not as close to him as his father or even Ophelia with whom he openly states his anger towards them. Hamlet first says, “I will not share you with the rest of my servants,” which he actually admits to being quite close to them. Except that these friends of his express no sympathy for the grief-stricken Hamlet. When he just needs a friend, they are not honest with him. Hamlet quickly eliminates them from his life and only has a friend left as a guide, Horatio. In depression, it is our ego that takes a hit, and Hamlet's ego may be at an all-time low. Hamlet felt as if he had absolutely no one in the world to turn to for guidance. However, towards the end of the play, Hamlet seems to have finally understood his pain and come to terms with it. Towards the end of the play Hamlet appears to be a completely different man. At the beginning of the play, Hamlet groaned and lamented how hurt he was but, towards the end, Hamlet “finds peace and responds by accepting whatever situation presents itself”, Kirsch states that “Hamlet becomes all men in his pain… in l 'image of charity'. Throughout Kirsch's review, Hamle'ts Grief, he mounts a very convincing argument for what Hamlet's emotional state was really like. Kirsch is able to support the,.