Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a text that demands and resists interpretation. In this story the problems are the point for give a meaning to this literary work, because this narrative does not have a thesis. Shakespeare is important for western tradition, due to his characters on each of his works. His characters are real people making his stories completely honest and realistic. The story Hamlet, narrates the actions made by the principal character who is the prince of Denmark and has the same name as the story. Hamlet did not know if he was doing and taking the right decisions because his mental health is being destroyed by the circumstances that he is going through in his life. Hamlet started narrating the died of Hamlet’s father, and …show more content…
Now in the story the mental health of hamlet is not the only important aspect to highlight, as well his honor is important and crucial in the tale, due to his deal with his father’s ghost of avenge his death. Polonius is the counsellor of the king who was suspecting about Hamlet plants to kill his uncle Claudius. When hamlet was in his mother’s room for telling her about the true of his father’s death, Polonius was hiding behind the curtains in the queen’s room trying to hear what Hamlet was going to said to his mother. Hamlet suspect that someone was behind the curtains and he took the action of kill the gossip person behind of the curtains with his sword. Hamlet was thinking that his action was correct but his action was a wrong decision, because as a result of this action Polonius daughter, Ophelia has now one more reason for take her life. Hamlet was a great and marvelous son, but know the good Hamlet has almost disappeared in the story. Now with the suicide of Ophelia, the soul of Hamlet is more dark, because he is suffering the mental illness of depression making him to have the possibility of fallow Ophelia in her decision, showing by his phrase “To be, or not to be: that is the question” that is one of the most important
The story of Hamlet is all about his tragic journey through life. Throughout his journey he has to deal with the passing of his father and his mother's hasty remarriage to his uncle C laudius the dead king's brother. It is remarkable how one person can deal with the amount of betray he has had to deal with in his life. I can come to the conclusion that hamlet has depression, you are able to see this through his constant mood swings and lack of interaction with his family and so called friends. As a result of all the stress he is encountering he is slowly driving himself mad and many health problems can occur from this.
In William Shakespeare’s, “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, a young prince named Hamlet is depressed and misguided. His father, the King has died and his mother Gertrude has already remarried his uncle Claudius. Hamlet is absolutely torn until his father’s ghost visits the castle and entreats Hamlet to avenge his death and kill his uncle King Claudius. Hamlet begins to test Claudius with plays and when Claudius finds out, all he has by his side is his councilor Polonius. Polonius tries to entrap Hamlet in every way possible, even by using his daughter Ophelia.
In the play, Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a dynamic character to cause a mental state conundrum among the audience and explore themes of suicide, spying, friendship, madness, love, hate and humour. Furthermore, by utilising literary devices such as soliloquy, characterisation,
Hamlet had no other thoughts in this matter, he chose to act as a crazy mad person and lose his honor and certainty from those who were around him to gain his dad’s name back and so the Old Hamlet kind would rest in peace. Hamlet know he will go through not an easy bath, which by that lead him to hastition in his decision, he still toke on the role of a mad person but not sure what to do, even though he know who did it, Hamlet was not certain that losing his honor which lead to losing the trust of many who were around, including his lover Ophelia. Hamlet goes back and forth, how about my honor, and my mom’s honor that has been lost from the time she thought of marrying, her husband’s brother. The action which have token at this point was i am going to bring her honor so that I could be able to start the revange. The struggle that hamlet went through is all because he knew and understand the meaning of an honorable king and hero been betrayed and killed by the person who spend the life with.
Hamlet is a powerful story of love, life, revenge, and death. The themes within the play are written to live on for eternity. It is difficult to fully and accurately represent a play as great as this one. The movie that we watched in class did not wholly represent the wonders and the magnitude of the themes within Shakespeare’s work.
Hamlet follows a Prince named Hamlet and his mourning of the death of his father the king. Prince Hamlet is depressed and is starting is become upset at the people in his family. This is because everyone in his family is acting as if the death of his father is okay and they immediately move on and remarry. Throughout this story the tension builds and there are several moments which people would call a turning points.
Hamlet Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare is a deep dark revenge tragedy of love and family betrayal. The revenge that Hamlet wants for the death of his father at his uncle’s hand consumes him so much that he loses his mind and causes everyone including the innocent to die. Hamlet is angry over the betrayal he feels when in discovers his uncle Claudius, who is now king killed his father. His mother marrying his uncle who, he now sees as a whore and Ophelia his true love repels his love.
In The Tragedy of Hamlet , by William Shakespeare, some of the most significant events are mental or psychological events that make the audience feel and have an emotional connection with the characters. Moreover, these significant events are categorized as new awakenings, discoveries, and changes in consciousness that set off a mental or psychological effect to the readers. The author, Shakespeare, gives these internal events to characters such as Ophelia, Gertrude, and Hamlet throughout the play to give the sense of excitement, suspense, and climax which associate with their external action. Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and the sister of Laertes, who both tell her to stop seeing Hamlet. To Polonius, Ophelia is an eternal virgin who
In Hamlet, Shakespeare presented Hamlet as the prince of Denmark. When he arrive his home, he found his beloved father, the king of Denmark, is already dead. Again, his mothers marriage with his uncle came to him bolt from the blue. It was unbearable for him to accept that his parents’ conjugal bed is being shared. Then the trauma started that ended into death.
Like many things, Hamlet is intelligent and honorable, but his indecisiveness is the cause of his tragic downfall. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare portrays that Hamlet is very incapable of finishing the task at hand. Throughout the drama Hamlet faces many trials and tribulations due to his late father Hamlet, who was murderously killed by Claudius. His inability to kill Claudius and himself is one grand flaw of an epic hero. After King Hamlets passing, Hamlet entered an unknown state of mind that not only feared others for his wellbeing, but also feared himself.
In “Hamlet” a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, the death of a character is an occurring event. William Shakespeare uses imagery and allusion to demonstrate the result of manipulation from other characters upon Ophelia, daughter of Polonius, and leading up to her death. Her death was not the consequence of disgraceful actions of her own, but rather by the involvement of others and their influence on her life. Hamlet’s apparent rejection of her love and her father’s personal vindictive leads up to her simple-minded state, entering a world of madness. She has now gone mad, singings nonsense songs and giving people flowers that she has picked from the garden.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I.v.90). Hamlet is about a young prince who is mourning the loss of his father. He then tries to seek revenge on his uncle Claudius because he poisoned his father. Throughout the play Hamlet’s behavior starts to change which causes him to become mad. The theory about all this is a Psychological Approach.
Suicide is a reoccuring theme in Hamlet. Since this is a theme that affects all characters to a certain degree, it is interesting to see how the idea of suicide is treated both morally, religiously and aesthetically. This essay will mostly be based on Hamlet´s own soliloquies, considering their relevance to the theme, but Queen Gertrude´s treatment of Ophelia´s death is also worth a mention. The story of Hamlet takes place in medieval Denmark, but a precise date is not mentioned.
William Shakespeare is the most famous name in English literature, and his works continue to influence new generations of readers and play-goers today. Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s greatest and longest plays, is the tragic story of Hamlet, a fictional Prince of Denmark, who seeks revenge on his uncle for murdering his father and marrying his widowed mother. He is visited by the ghost of his father, King Hamlet, who tells of the plot of his brother, Claudius, to poison him and take his throne as well as his Queen Gertrude. The two subplots of the story involve Hamlet and his love interest, Ophelia, as well as the tensions between Denmark and her neighboring country of Norway. Although Hamlet was written in at the turn of the sixteenth century,
To begin, in the first speech in Hamlet is about how he feels about his mother. Hamlets, real father had past away because of his uncle which was his father's own brother. While he was laying out in their own garden and his uncle had put poison in his uncle’s ear, he never woke up and was pronounced dead. Hamlet was