IS THE SOURCE OF HAMLET’S GRIEF THE LOSS OF EVERYTHING THAT HE HOLDS DEAR? There is no doubt at all that the source of Hamlet’s grief was associated with all of the different traumas he experienced during his life. His perfect little world crumbled, Leaving but a lonely and unhappy man, with the promise of avenging his father’s death. Everyone that Hamlet cared for let him down in one way or another. …showed first 75 words of 647 total…

…showed last 75 words of 647 total…lost his father, but everything that he holds dear. All of the characters in the play Hamlet tried to pin point his grief to one event; little did they know that it was the build up of events that broke Hamlet’s back (Act 2). This just proves the theory that Hamlet could not handle all the pressures of life at that particular part in time. It was just too much for one man to bear.