Nothing Else Matters – Metallica.  

This song has a direct relationship with the emotional state that Hamlet felt during the beginning of the play. After the death of his father Hamlet felt devastated. He did not felt any sort of happiness. The fact that his mother married his uncle not very long after the death of king Hamlet made Hamlet think that life had no sense. He felt betrayed by his own mother. The song talks about how life acquires the sense we give it, and for Hamlet, whose spirit was corrupted by sadness and anguish, life was nothing more than a chaotic and gloomy existence. For Hamlet nothing else mattered. His father was dead, and nothing could change it. The depravation he observed astonished him. It was revolting to see how his mother could go from one husband onto the next one. The prince of Denmark did not care anymore for what they said, what they did, what they knew. His lack of emotional tranquility shaped everything he did, including the way he talked, acted, and thought. Furthermore, the lack of interest he showed for life reflected what would be the outcome of his tragedy. Deceit and lies are always the leading path for despair and death. And when death comes, in all reality, nothing else matters.