# Hamlet — Disenchantment character guide

> Hamlet in Disenchantment by C. E. Montague.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0039-iv

## Who they are

Shakespeare's prince, a symbol of indecision and introspection.

## In the story

### [VII: “Can’t Believe a Word”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/vii-can-t-believe-a-word)

Referenced in a rhetorical question about judging Germany: 'as Hamlet asks his injudicious mother, on that fair mountain cease to feed and batten on this moor?'

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/ii)

Referenced in a simile: 'as Hamlet asks his injudicious mother' to criticize the propagandists' choices.

### [Any Cure?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/xv-any-cure)

Quoted to illustrate the post-war mood of weariness and apathy: 'How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / To me are all the uses of the world!'

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/disenchantment_se/chapters/ii)

Quoted to illustrate the national mood of weariness and disillusionment: 'How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / To me are all the uses of the world!'

## Links

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