tory progresses. These doubts are a major hindrance to his thoughts of revenge. Hamlet wishes to avenge the murder of his father and rectify this great injustice. The conflict between his desire to seek revenge and his own thoughts of incompetence is the cause of his initial unrest. "Haste me to know"t , that I , with wings as swift / As meditation or thoughts of love , / may sweep to my revenge (1.5.29-31). Here Hamlet pleads to the Ghost of King Hamlet to reveal the name of his murderer. This request is emotional and impulsive at this point. Hamlet does not realize exactly what this revenge may entail. This revenge seems simple to Hamlet only because he doesn"t know who the killer is yet, his connection to the killer will be a great convolution to the situation. Toward the end of act one King Hamlet"s ghost tells Hamlet who his murderer is. This news is the catalyst that embarks Hamlet upon his depression." The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, / The ever I was born to set it right !"(1.5.188-189). These two lines particularly solidify Hamlet"s dilemma. Here he knows what the task is actually calling him to do - kill his uncle. The second act includes two soliloquies; it is in these that the depth of Hamlet"s depression is revealed .The soliloquy opens with a reference to disease and decay : "Oh that this sullied flesh would melt / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew," (1.2.129-130) Here Hamlet is speaking of his own flesh and makes his first reference to suicide. He expresses great dissatisfaction with the state of the world. "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable / Seem to me all uses of the world !" (1.2.133-134). These feelings of uselessness and depression are greatly due to his disapproval of and disgust with his mother"s recent action. Since Hamlet displays many manic depressive characteristics, the play seems to be made up of hills and valleys. Oscar James Campbell describes Hamlet as a series of meditati...
