Pity In Hamlet Essay

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I Pity the Fool
(An Essay On Three Characters From Hamlet I Pity)

When you hear the word Hamlet you think to be or not to be, but when you read this play you start to pity each one of these characters for how tortured and demented they all seem to act. Throughout this play I had made the connection that it reminds me of a beloved Disney movie The Lion King. (Hernandez) While reading or seeing this play you start to pity most of the characters and what they go through each and everyday. Hamlet, Ophelia, and Claudius are three characters you most pity throughout the play Hamlet. You start to understand why these characters are acting the way they do and at the end it all starts to make sense. You realize that they all seem to be facing similar …show more content…

He finally gains some understanding when his father 's apparition visits him and asks to avenge his father 's death this is when you start to pity Hamlet. The turning point for hamlets insanity, I think is when he finds out that his uncle had actually murdered his father. You feel sympathy for him because he has mourned for so long and with good reason that he begins to turn crazy and everyone around him seems to notice it. You start to feel bad for Hamlet because he is stuck he thinks about ending his life on page one hundred and forty-two Act three scene one lines, sixty-three to sixty-four in his To Be or Not To Be Soliloquy “To be, or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer.” what Hamlet means is it really worth living he is so tortured by the death of his father that he thinks that killing himself will end the misery and get him out of the stuck situation he feels he is in. Hamlet is depressed and can 't get out of the funk he is in and with his mania he is having a hard time figuring out what to do with himself. (McManamy)In the end Hamlet avenges his father 's death, but dies as well and I pitied that he didn 't get to have a long prosperous …show more content…

One thing about the casting of Ophelia is that she has to be pretty if she isn 't then you lose the effect of Ophelia.(Mabillard) She seemed misguided and would do anything to please her family, for example, she stopped talking to Hamlet because her brother Laertes and she Father Polonius demanded she speak no longer to him. Yet she knew she was pregnant with Hamlet 's baby and respected her family 's wishes. However, she was used as a spy to figure out what was wrong with Hamlet and when Hamlet went off on her saying she was a slut and she needed to get herself to a nunnery because he knew she was carrying his baby. I started to pity her because Hamlet wasn 't thinking clearly and saying some really uncalled for things and when she still expressed that she loved him, but was confused about what was going on with her love Hamlet. I felt bad for her because all she has is her looks and she knows that, but she also blows it when she has a chance to tell Hamlet the truth of where Polonius is on page one-hundred and forty-six act three scene one line one-hundred and thirty-nine she says “At home, my lord” When he was really behind the drapes spying on the both of them. I really felt bad for her because she had just started to lose all hope in Hamlet and pretty much that is when you realize she has finally given up. Claudius is probably one of the characters that most people would say he got

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