The Outlook on Hamlet This essay will discuss the many point of views of Hamlet towards everyone he encounters. The dramatic changes in his attitudes towards his family and friends. The decisions he is making that will change him and everything that surrounds him. Threw out the rest of the essay hamlet will demonstrate his different personalities. This essay will point out hamlet and his changes of emotions and will be giving us an understanding of why he is acting like this towards everybody. The main points of this essay will be the emotions towards Ophelia,Gertrude and king Claudius. Hamlet will demonstrate a confusing love towards Ophelia that he might not even understand. Hamlet demonstrates an aggressive emotion towards his …show more content…
Hamlet had a confusing attitude towards Ophelia as he says “You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so (inoculate) our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.” (Act 3. Lines 127-129). Hamlet is confessing that he never loved her that he never fell in love with her. Ernest Jones says “ The precise nature of his original feeling for Ophelia is a little obscure”. Hamlet’s love for Ophelia changed after his father's death. He did not know if he loved her or not. Hamlet is confused towards her and demonstrates it by pushing her away. He doesn't see things clearly and can not control his emotions and it has affected his relationship with ophelia. He has let his revenge blind him and his emotions towards …show more content…
Hamlet says “So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word. It is “adieu, adieu, remember me.” I have sworn it.”. Hamlet is expressing his desire of revenge towards the king for killing his father . hamlet swears that he will kill the king and let his father's spirit rest in peace. The critique Phillip Edwards says “The idea that Hamlet's problem is somehow to punish Claudius and yet transcend the sheer human violence and vindictiveness which such punishment entails goes back to 1839 and the once famous but now forgotten 'conscience' theory of Hermann Ulrici. 'It cannot,' he said, 'be an entirely innocent and heavenly spirit that would wander on earth to demand a son to avenge his death.'” This helps us understand his anger towards the king and the violence hamlet has within
(III.i. 97-98) She says the he know he did because there are love notes and gifts that he has given her. This is the moment Hamlet realizes that he can no longer trust his girlfriend who he loves. Even though during this exchange he insults her because he is hurt he admits that he did love her once. In the movie the viewers see how Hamlets facial expressions show how hurt he is and how he changes throughout the scene from meeting Ophelia, where he is happy to see her, to the end where he looks betrayed and hurt because of what happened.
Briefly characterize Hamlet as seen at court, then alone with his own thoughts, and when he is with Horatio. Explain how his behavior here adds to the play’s developing impression of Hamlet. In Act 3, Scene 4 of "Hamlet," Hamlet's emotional state appears to be agitated, angry, and bitter. Phrases such as "Bloody, bawdy villain!"
In the final scene Hamlet dies, but before he does he leaves some important words, “As thou 'rt a man, Give me the cup! Let go! By heaven, I 'll ha 't. Things standin thus unknow, shall I leave behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from
As the play continues Hamlet is confronted by the ghost of his father and is told that he was murdered by Claudius while sleeping in the garden. This is a major turning point for Hamlet early on in the play because now he has a purpose, to seek revenge against Claudius for murdering his father. “So uncle, there you are. Now, as to my promise… I’ve sworn to do it
In act four Hamlet ‘pretended’ that he didnt love Ophelia because her dad and claudius were watching him. If Hamlet really loved Ophelia then he would not of acted like a douche bag and made Ophelia feel like she meant nothing to him. If he did have to say those things he said to her so he can stay with her he didn 't even bother to send her a letter and tell her why he said the things he said, instead he never contacted her again he just let it be. Hamlet could have been a man and confessed his love for her in front of them and just fight for her. Another way Hamlet shows he does not love Ophelia is is the fact he feels no harm in his killing of Ophelia dad.
This article is split into eight different sections. Each section is related to a different misconception about the play Hamlet. For example one of the misconceptions she list is about how Hamlet as a character is inconsistent. In this article she describes the character of Hamlet to be a “speaker and a thinker”. The author also tells us how his character seems to be a tad bit flawed in his role.
In William Shakespeare 's play, Hamlet, we are introduced to the lead protagonist, Hamlet. Hamlet is a multi-dimensional character who goes through a dramatic transformation throughout the play. We ourselves will never know who Hamlet truly is, throughout the play we are told Hamlet is not acting himself. He is written to be human, a complex, changing character. In this essay i will discuss some of his characteristic in the play.
I did love you once... You should have no believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not” (lines 124-129). This part of the play makes him seem really insane because he is telling Ophelia that he loved her but that he did not love her. I think that since Hamlet has to hide his feelings for Ophelia it makes him sad since he can not be with
Clearly, it is in this instance of such bitter distaste towards Claudius that Hamlet is not as galvanized by the death of his father, as most people would be. But rather towards the fact that Hamlet’s passage to
He is later disgusted by his mother’s quick remarriage to his uncle, Claudius, almost two months after the death of his father who was also his mother’s husband. After Hamlet’s conversation with his father’s ghost in which Hamlet was told that his father was murdered by Claudius, he became filled with even more grief because he has a difficult duty of killing his uncle in order to avenge his father’s death. This is seen in the “to be or not to be” soliloquy.
Hamlet does not value Ophelia 's feelings he belittles her. In Hamlets defense this is the way he was brought up to treat women, during that time this was a common way to treat a women. Even though in today 's society it is not at all ok to treat women with such disrespect. He also likes for everything to go as planned and this may result in why he can not have a stable relationship with a woman. This also causes him to have many stumbling blocks in his life that causes some emotional pain
Hamlet releases the pent up emotions that he is keeping to himself and expresses his wish to die. The emotional response to death experienced by Hamlet in this passage, continues throughout the remainder of the play as he seeks revenge for his father’s untimely
“Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, and now I'll do 't. [He draws his sword.] And so he goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. That would be scanned: a villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.”(QUOTEE) Hamlet makes the decision not to shed blood from King Claudius at that time because he is cautious about his choices.
Although there are many different interpretations, Hamlet’s behavior towards Ophelia stood out to me the most. He was being unmannerly and inappropriate with Ophelia makes her feel uncomfortable. For example, he had assumed that Ophelia was thinking about sex after asking her, “shall I lie in your lap.” Throughout the whole scene Ophelia seemed very uncomfortable around Hamlet. She responded quietly with short answers as Hamlet rudely spoke loud, causing audience members to turn their attention towards them.
Through the entirety of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the characters were overcome with the need for revenge as the outcome of many deaths. Therefore, no one was happy through “Hamlet” and it resulted in a tragedy. The character Hamlet played a big role in turning towards revenge and never would classify himself as being happy. Hamlet displays positive and negative behavior throughout the play. Hamlet exhibits strengths and weaknesses as well, although his weaknesses of over-thinking, bitterness, and his inability to accept the death of his father overshadow his strengths.