It's all a bit melodramatic for sure, but I don't entirely lose sympathy with Hamlet at this point.

…een two gravediggers that continues between the main gravedigger and Hamlet as the scene progresses. It is only at the point, much later in the scene, when Hamlet discovers Ophelia’s suicide and begins his drama-king style grieving competition with Laertes that we are willing to toss aside our sympathy for Hamlet once-and-for-all. The graveyard scene not only encapsulates two major emotional shifts of the audience toward Hamlet…
How We Come to Love and Lose Hamlet in the Graveyard Scene
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Simon Dillon
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Dec 19, 2021
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It's all a bit melodramatic for sure, but I don't entirely lose sympathy with Hamlet at this point.
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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