"For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops" 

 

 

This quote speaks about the cyclical nature of emotions, and how everyone experiences different emotions at different times, as when one person "begins to weep, somewhere . . . another stops".  Pozzo experiences a cycle of many emotions (i.e. happiness and sadness) that paint his character as unstable.

 

Cycles are an important facet to Hamlet as well. Hamlet is expected to stop mourning his father's death simply because death is just part of the cycle of life. Gertrude justifies this in saying: 

 

"Thou know'st tis common. All that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity." (I.Iv.72)

 

 

She essentially says that death is a normal process, is recurring , and since it is part of the natural life cycle, Hamlet should stop "seeking for [his] noble father in the dust" (I.Iv.65)

 

 This directly portrays the common theme and significance of cycles in both texts. The concept of cycles play an instrumental role in that it is used to define behaviour, and furthermore is used to define characters as a whole. In this case, the cycle of emotions that Pozzo faces effectively underline his character as crazed and insane. In Hamlet, the idea of cycles is used to justify actions, as the process of life and death is used to serve as justification for the end of Hamlet's mourning his father.