Custom Essays: Hamlet Movie Vs. Play

The movie Hamlet has lots of interesting and exciting moments, just like the play does. In the movie, they portray Hamlet mostly the same as they do in the play. In the beginning he is depressed because of his dead father, while everyone else around him is acting like they’re fine. A few minutes later in the movie, he begins a soliloquy about how his mom moved on way too fast from his dad and married too quickly. Hamlet later sees his dead dad when he comes back in ghost form. Hamlet is frustrated when this happens because his dad tells him that he was killed by his brother who is now married to his wife. He also finds out that his dad is in purgatory because he couldn't confess his sins before he died, since he was killed in his sleep. Hamlet is so furious and strives to get revenge on his uncle. Hamlet claims to Ophelia that he was once in love with her. Between all of Hamlet’s crazy emotions, he is also suicidal, he claims that people are cowards because they are scared to die, but he is saying that he wants to

Ophelia is in love with Hamlet but her family thinks he isn't right for her. In the beginning Laertes is telling Ophelia that she shouldn't see Hamlet anymore. She told him that she was going to keep seeing him besides for what he is saying. A few minutes later her dad, Polonius, joins their conversation and says some things about hamlet that surprises her, so she listens to him and agreed not to see him anymore. Even though what he was saying surprised her, she still believed Hamlet did love her once. Later on, Hamlet was talking to ophelia and she was wearing a microphone and Hamlet found out, so she got upset and he got extremely livid about it. Afterwards, Polonius dies because hamlet shot him and Ophelia starts losing her mind. She wasn't mentally stable. On the whole Ophelia’s emotions were very different, she could go to being very calm to being very mad to being