Throughout our lives we have to deal with the changing emotions within us. Our
emotions can sometimes be as unpredictable as the weather and yet we’ve all
found uses for the phrase “I’m having a bad week.” More over, while life
can be a roller coaster ride, it can seem at times that we have a string of
fortunate or unfortunate luck. These shifting highs and lows that we experience
are a mild form of melancholy. While Hamlet’s melancholy in the play is much
more pronounced then that which most of us experience, it’s still effects us
the same way as it does him. It’s usual to have weeks where everything seems
to go wrong and your temperament changes from what could have been a lighted
hearted, fun mood, to a dark, unpleasant mood. It can even seem at times that
you’re about to go crazy, if one more bad thing happens to you. This situation
resembles that of Hamlet.