Jealousy is like a symptom that makes people feel insecure about their selves. It makes people unconfident about their image. It inspires people to desire the things they don’t have and leave the things they do have. Jealousy also creates a variety of feelings and emotions for example madness, loneliness, anger and possibly even death. Murder, jealousy, revenge and a lot more is taken place in Denmark. I consider Hamlet Jr. a tragic hero because throughout the play, he makes positive and rational actions yet he also makes tragic flaws. I believe Hamlet is stuck in his own mind and he doesn’t know where to escape from his reality. One of Hamlet’s main flaw is his emotional feelings that he seems to face but he cannot control his feelings. As soon as he finds out about his father’s murder fills him with rage inside of him. Even though he‘s mad, he still manages a way to deal with his situation. It is safe to say that because of Claudius’s cruel action, Hamlet decides to act irrational about the fact that his own father was murdered by his uncle and also how his mother, Gertrude, got over Hamlet Sr. in just two months and ended up marrying King Claudius. Hamlet know’s that he is self-determined and motivated to seek revenge for the memory of his hero, Hamlet Sr. He felt as if it was his only option to avenge his father’s death even if it meant to go insane because humans fight for the ones they truly love. And sometimes the love that we feel for our heroes can make us go far beyond our limitations. Its cruel especially to murder the ones we love and when they hurt the people we care and admire we forget everything and do the most irrational things. He appears to not only act violently crazy, but also lose control of who we really are. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Horatio replies back to Hamlet "You speak wild and whirling words." (Act I Scene v, line 134) Throughout the play, he speaks gibberish. When he starts conversing with people, his speech has no actual meaning leaving the other person in confusion. I believe only a crazy person would speak nonsense. Even though Hamlet is very emotional, Hamlet is strong because he is a non-conformist and because he fights for what he wants. We clearly see that Hamlet is very upset by his mother and uncle’s actions. Throughout the play, Hamlet is so addicted to anger which causes him to act through emotions and ignoring the gift of him using his intellect. Hamlet’s main goal is to avenge his father’s death but, his actions to kill him are emotionally stuck inside of him because of the irrational decisions he has made through the craziness he has put on. At first, Gertrude was talking to Hamlet about how he was suppose to forget about his father’s death and move on with life. In the play, Gertrude says, “Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know‘st tis common. All that lives must die”(I.ii.71-73) Hamlet just couldn’t forget about his father in an instant. He was still full of sadness and felt weak and manipulated with the words of advice from Gertrude and Claudius. It is more than obvious that he turns insane once he finds out his uncle and his mother got married. In Claudius’s speech, he mentions, “ I’ve married my former sister-in-law, the queen, with mixed feelings of happiness and sadness.” (I.ii.8-11) It makes Hamlet feel more outrageous and mad rather than being sad. It has been so little time and his mother seems to forgotten all about Hamlet Sr. It forces Hamlet to explode because a mother cannot give up love in an instant. It leads Hamlet to insanity talking about how he wants to commit suicide and how there is no point of living. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, he speaks, “ O God, God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses in the world. Fie on t‘ah fie! Tis an unweeded garden.” (I.ii.133-135) In the first soliloquy, he begins with the aspiration of death upon him. His speech reveals that he’s suffering from
king? In the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare this tragedy occurs. Hamlet, the main character, is confronted by his father in the beginning of the play who is now a Ghost. Hamlet’s father, Ghost, orders Hamlet to seek revenge on Claudius because Claudius murdered him and remarried his wife. All through the play Hamlet delays in seeking his revenge because he wanted to be certain the ghost was his father, missed his opportunity, and had many interruptions. Initially, Hamlet was apprehensive…
characteristics that Hamlet presents throughout the play Hamlet. Hamlet really is a tragic hero. On one hand, he has an obvious intellectual ability. However, this intellectual ability somehow interferes with his ability to avenge his father’s death. This leads not only to his insanity, but also leads to his indecisiveness or hamartia. Hamlet is surely an intelligent individual and this is evident during both his actions and speech during the play. During the play when people…
Hamlets Revenge William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Hamlet, is the story about the Prince of Denmark’s struggle for revenge against his murderous uncle, who is now the new King of Denmark. Hamlet is stricken blind with revenge and has even been considered mad. Hamlet’s fall into insanity is a result of many different, tragic reasons. Throughout the entire play, Hamlet seems to be a loner, with a lack of true companionship. Most everyone seems to be against him throughout the play. They mistrust…
In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare the character Hamlet states a line “To be or not to be...” What does that mean? What is Hamlet asking and what is he talking about? The question is is it better to be alive or to be dead in this world? Hamlet is questioning life in that quote because he is so depressed about his mother remarrying his uncle not even two months after his father, King Hamlet passes away. Hamlet is in a swirl of depression and considers suicide. He doesn’t kill himself because…
Rollin Luis November 25, 2014 Hamlet For this essay we are going to be talking about William Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is visited by the ghost of his father and told that his uncle Claudius, who is now King, was responsible for his murder. Hamlet is torn about trying to avenge him, and ends up pretending to be insane. He hires actors to do a play about a man who kills his brother to become king to see Claudius' reaction. Hamlet confirms that Claudius was responsible…
action you had taken.”1 (Martha Stout). Hamlet proves to be mentally insane because his desire for revenge conquers his grasp on reality. Throughout the play Hamlet’s figment of imagination, lack of conscience and loss of control reinforce his unstable state of mind. Subsequently, Hamlets sanity is an argument of revenge versus reality. Hamlet is the victim of imagination, he can hear and see figures that none of the other characters can see. After Hamlet talks to the ghost and finds out his father…
They All Want to Play Hamlet by Carl Sandburg shifts from critical to empathetic yet disdainful. The poem opens up with a series of statements that are critical of actors; the statements suggest that because actors have not experienced what Hamlet had, they are incompetent to play the role. “They have not exactly seen their fathers killed..” suggest that in order to play Hamlet, one must know how he felt. Halfway through the poem by acknowledging why “they all want to play Hamlet,” the tone shifts to empathetic because the…
Upon conclusion of my analysis of both Agamemnon and Hamlet it is evident that Hamlet is more tragic then Agamemnon. Howrever, they both are tragedies in their own right as they both a bid by Aristotle's definition of a tragedy. Both plays display the collapse of a character who is not entirely good nor a entirely evil, but a combination of the two. This character, the tragic hero, also undergoes a tragic flaw, which ultimately leads to their death. The development of this character causes the audience…
Hamlet Grieving His Father’s Death in Hamlet by William Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, is a tragedy that is set back in the Kingdom of Denmark. The play begins with the tragic death of the king of Denmark, King Hamlet. The King, who is Hamlets father and Claudius’ brother, is murdered. At the start of the play Hamlet, his family, and close friends are beginning each of their grieving processes at the King’s funeral. This will soon bring in a domino effect of unfortunate events…
ANT Onwu HAMLET SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIMES: William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. The history plays Richard II and Henry IV reflect ideas on kingship, the use of power, the changing meaning of honor. The tragedy of Macbeth shows how a man can lose everything including his wife because of power, while King Lear explores the sufferings of an old man as he learns to understand the interdependence…