Hamlet's Distractions: Feelings And Passions

Cause of Hamlet's Distractions: Feelings and Passions

Throughout Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, feelings and passion are

an enormous distraction for the main character Hamlet. Hamlet tends to act

as though he were an adolescent rather than a grown man. He acts very

immature, sarcastic, and takes action, before thinking it out, in the heat

of anger. The abilities to love, control one's actions, and to subdue

one's depression are signs of becoming mature however, Hamlet, a grown man,

has a difficult time controlling these abilities. Although Hamlet may be a

man who has come of age nevertheless he tends to identify with the likes of

an adolescent

Being a young immature, mouthy, extreme youth Hamlet is much like

an adolescent and very unlike an adult. His incapacity to love someone

maturely, his rudeness and sarcasm towards older people, and his reacting

only during times of anger is exactly how an adolescent would act for these

qualities tend to be prominent the teenage years. Hamlet's actions have

become more and more accepted over time however, his actions then were only

accepted then because of his ability to act mad. Had Hamlet acted like

that always his behavior would be very unacceptable to society. Hamlet

although an adult will forever be remembered as an immature, irrational,

adolescent.