There is always more to Hamlet than the other characters in the play can figure out. Hamlet actually tells other characters that there is more to him than meets the eye—notably, his mother, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—but his fascination involves much more than this. When he speaks, he sounds as if there's something important he's not saying, maybe something even he is not aware of. A university student whose studies are interrupted by …showed first 75 words of 386 total…

…showed last 75 words of 386 total…own death and even the option of suicide. But, despite all of the things with which Hamlet professes dissatisfaction, it is remarkable that the prince and heir of Denmark should think about these problems only in personal and philosophical terms. He seems to spend little time thinking about the threats to Denmark's national security from without or the threats to its stability from within (some of which he helps to create through his own carelessness).