The Importance of Self-Image in Hamlet Self-image plays a big role in how people act. Hamlet's inability to know himself or understand his own motivations leads to incessant battles between good and evil in his conscience, which is the reason for his unpredictable tragic actions and behaviors. Hamlet's confusion is evident in his soliloquies. His confused mind can be divided into five categories. Hamlet suffers from his own moral standards, the desperate need to seek the truth, lack of trust in his own impulses, self-hatred, and melancholy. Each of these categories contributes to Hamlet's troubled mind. Hamlet based much of his actions on his religious moral standards. Although Hamlet had high morals, he still had many impulses contrary to his moral standards that he wanted to implement; such as the murder of his father and his suicidal thoughts. "His canon against self-mutilation! O God, God, how tired, insipid, flat and useless all the uses of this world seem to me!" (I, ii, 36-138) Hamlet says that if it were not against his religion to commit suicide, he would do it. In his fourth soliloquy, Hamlet says: “So conscience makes us all cowards. » (III, i, 91) Hamlet attributes his inability to implement his impulses to these moral standards rooted in his conscience. He finds the restrictions of his world unbearable as he is confined within religious and class barriers. As a young man, Hamlet's mind is full of many questions about the events that occur during his complicated life. This brings us to the next two categories of his mind. His need to seek the truth and his lack of trust in his own impulses. Hamlet's confusion in what he wants...... middle of paper ......study of medieval men of his time. He thinks a lot, considering his motives and finding evidence of his father's actions before carrying out his actions. This is why Hamlet could not understand himself, his character differs from the typical man of his time and therefore his motivations will also be different. Hamlet lost his self-confidence and therefore could not decide whether to act or not because he had lost his understanding of himself. So, a bit of corruption in Hamlet's world, mixed with his characteristics that just weren't suited to his times, led him to his tragic end; due to his actions and inactions. In conclusion, self-confidence can lead us to do great and reasonable things. Losing this self-confidence will lead us to become indecisive and weak individuals. This corruption of character can ultimately lead to a tragic decline of our ideal world..