The Fatal Flaws of Many
When William Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet he would have never dreamed how analytical people would respond to it four hundred years later. Yet here I sit analyzing and writing, not taking even a moment to appreciate the effort or sheer beauty bestowed in the play (well, here we go). The six main characters in Hamlet each have a unique fatal flaw; Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Bashful, Dopey and Doc; “oh wait,” that would be something entirely different, anyway. In the early goings of the play, the second scene to be exact, we discover that Gertrude is very greedy. Like Gertrude Claudius is also greedy, he kills Hamlet senior just so he can become king. The love of Hamlet, Ophelia is weak-minded, she cannot come to grips with her fathers death. Ophelias’ brother, Laertes is greatly impressionable. The father of the two siblings, Polonius is always in everyone else’s business and is undoubtedly nosey. The entitled character Hamlet avoids the inevitable of killing Claudius in many instances. Gertrude is greedy in that she marries her dead husbands’ brother so she can become queen not because she loves him. We find that Gertrude is greedy in Hamlets first soliloquy. “She married. O, most wicked speed, to
would not have taken the fatal drink of the poisoned wine, therefore greed is Gertrudes’ fatal flaw. The fatal flaws of the characters in Hamlet are the causes for them to meet their doom. Gertrudes’ greedy behavior led her do drinking the poison and dying. Killing Hamlet senior, because he wanted to become king, ended up killing Claudius. Ophelias’ weak mind brought her to committing suicide. The impressionable personality of Laertes led to him betraying a friend and being slain. The nosey behavior of Polonius brought Hamlets’ rapier through his gut. Hamlets avoidance problem unfortunately did not allow him to avoid his death. For the characters in Hamlet their fatal flaws were their way of life and their tragic end to life. The avenger, Hamlet, tries to avoid killing Claudius directly in many instances. “Why, what an ass am I!…Must like a whore unpack my heart with words and fall a-cursing, like a very drab, a scullion! Fie upon’t, foh! About, my brains!”(2.2.510-515). In this quote Hamlet confesses his cowardly ways to himself in his first soliloquy. “What, frighted with false fire?”(3.2.231). Here Hamlet tries to get Claudius to confess his guilt at the play so he can avoid dealing with Claudius himself. “Nay, I know not. Is it the King?”(3.4.28). In this quote Hamlet stabs Polonius behind the arras thinking he is the king. He then asks if it was the king, hoping it was. Hamlet later dies due to a plan devised by Claudius but before he does pass he gets his Laert
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