What Is Hamlet's Personality

Paul Harris, notable founder of Rotary International once said, “Personality has the power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless”. In other words, personality is what defines oneself and it is the qualities of man that are revealed in one's actions. Primarily, through William Shakespeare’s most remarkable plays, Hamlet, one can distinguish various intricate personalities. Most evidently, the protagonist Hamlet is most prevalently driven through particular characteristics that define his behaviours and consequential actions throughout the play. Hamlet’s personality is accurately determined through three defining traits; his deeps thoughts of depression, emotional sensibility, and his admirable sense of cleverness. Foremost, a very dominant trait expressed on numerous occasions through Hamlet’s character is his appearance as an anti-existentialist, depressed and discontent with his life. One of the first signs of his depression is portrayed as he declaims his grief for his late father and even more so, his disgust for the hasty marriage of his mother and uncle; “O that this too too-solid flesh would melt/Thaw, and

For instance, in his soliloquy he asserts his concealed feelings and thoughts of his mother’s marriage; “...She married:–O most wicked speed, to post/With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!/It is not, nor can it come to, good/But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!” (I, ii, 156-159). Hamlet willingly explains that this dreadful marriage cannot, and is determined that it will not be favourable for anyone, while on the other hand although he wishes to express his afflicted emotions to his mother, he feels he must keep silent, so that Gertrude is not inflicted upon with any pain. Unfortunately, Hamlet’s sensitivity when it comes to emotions takes advantage of him resulting in his downfalls as a