William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, has interested audiences for centuries.
Shakespeare's character, Hamlet, is a very mysterious person. There is more to .
him than meets the eye. Hamlet is not only the prince of Denmark, he is also the .
mourning son of a murdered father who is secretly trying to avenge his death .
through theatre with the help of his dead father's ghost. Hamlet's encounter's .
with his mother, Gertrude, and his uncle, Claudius, are not handled in a rational .
way. His experience with Laertes is not an improvement either. These are three .
events that set in motion a series of tragic events that should have been avoided.
Hamlet is angry with Gertrude because of her love for Claudius. Hamlet .
believes that this affair is incest and his anger is further fueled by the knowledge .
of Claudius being his father's murderer. Hamlet scolds his mother, "nay but to .
live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and .
making love over the nasty sty." Hamlet is blinded by anger and allows his .
emotions to control his actions. Instead of yelling at his mother, he should have .
told her the truth about his father's death. Since Hamlet did not tell his mother .
the truth, he only made matters worse by allowing her to continue living with a .
murderer. Hamlet's anger also leads him to kill Polonius when he hears him .
hiding behind a curtain and thinks it is Claudius. If he had been clear-headed he .
might have looked behind the curtain and seen it was Polonius, which would .
prevent Hamlet from killing him.
Hamlet comes up with an elaborate play that has a plot mirroring the events of .
his father's death, as told to him by his father's ghost. He believes that Claudius .
will see this play and feel guilty, if Claudius is the murderer, and that his showing .
remorse would confirm what Hamlet already knew. Upon Claudius seeing the .
re-enactment if his own actions, he first tries to stop the play, and when that does .
Hamlet Hamlet is a young man who's father dies and his life is turned upside down. ... Hamlet is battling his conscience. ... Hamlet is extremely indecisive. ... Hamlet wants to kill his uncle because he killed hamlets father. ... Hamlet only trusts Horatio. ...
The old king Hamlet is murder by Claudius and therefore Hamlet must take his revenge. ... Hamlet begins to doubt the ghost. ... Hamlet is contradicts himself. ... Hamlet's next problem is that of morality. ... Hamlet's flaw of irresolution, the uncertainty on how to act or proceed, is shown when Hamlet sees a play and the passion the actors had, after Hamlet's third soliloquy, in Hamlet's fourth soliloquy, and in Hamlet's indecisive pursuit in avenging his father's death. ...
Hamlet In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet never loses his sanity, in his plan to feign madness. ... It is after this statement that Hamlet begins to act mad. ... Guildenstern asks Hamlet what he means by this and Hamlet professes he is "" . . . but mad north-north-west. ... Polonius believe he [Hamlet] was mad. ... In a conversation, Gertrude questions Hamlet's sanity. ...
Hamlet In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet never loses his sanity, in his plan to feign madness. ... It is after this statement that Hamlet begins to act mad. ... Guildenstern asks Hamlet what he means by this and Hamlet professes he is "" . . . but mad north-north-west. ... Polonius believe he [Hamlet] was mad. ... In a conversation, Gertrude questions Hamlet's sanity. ...
Laertes is a mirror to Hamlet. ... Laertes is decisive and Hamlet is not. ... Fortinbras acts as Hamlet's inspiration; he motivates Hamlet to go forward with his plan to kill Claudius, which in the end leads to Hamlet's downfall. ... Horatio is Hamlet's friend and solid rock on whom Hamlet can trust and depend. ... Horatio cared for Hamlet greatly, and so Hamlet cared greatly for Horatio. ...
KING Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET At supper. ... If Claudius does not stand on one side of a titanic conflict, his betrayal of Hamlet's father and Marriage to Hamlet's mother, do ignite one: Hamlet's conflict with himself. ... In the end Hamlet dies along with most of the principle characters whether they were duplicities against Hamlet or not. ... By the end of the play Hamlet has thoroughly explored the question but like Hamlet, it remains an enigma. ...
Hamlet The study of Shakespeare's Hamlet has been one that is very extensive as well as enormous. ... A critic of Hamlet once said, "a man set out to read all the books about Hamlet would have time to read nothing else, not even Hamlet." ... "Hamlet is the tragedy of reflection. ... For where Hamlet saw that "the time is out of joint," Hamlet himself was "out of joint." ... (Mack. 64) Hamlet begins his questioning with the death of elder Hamlet. ...
Hamlet 1 Throughout Hamlet, Hamlet expresses his thoughts via several soliloquies. ... In this scene, Hamlet is being "set up" by Ophelia, Polonius, and Claudius. ... This is quite different than the "emotional Hamlet" seen in 1.2, or the "vengeful Hamlet" seen in 1.5. ... The three claim to be concerned for Hamlet's mental state of mind. This is ironic, because as the characters within the play see Hamlet mentally deteriorating, readers see Hamlet mentally developing. ...
Hamlet Tania Kozie-Slobodzian Hamlet is categorized as one of Shakespeare's tragedies. ... Horatio a friend of Hamlet tells Hamlet that he is afraid because he thinks he has seen a ghost who resembles the late King. ... The Ghost of Hamlet's father appears in front of Hamlet. The ghost is in fact Hamlet's late father. ... Now that Hamlet is said to be crazy, Polonius goes to the King and tells him about Hamlet's strange behavior concerning Ophelia. ...
