Reflection About Love In Hamlet

His ideas about her being a good pure Queen are proved false as she turns her back on her husband and marries his brother. This bothers Hamlet before he discovers his father was murdered. “Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots, As will not leave their tinct” (79-81) Gertrude admits that incest with her husband’s brother has blackened her soul and will forever haunt her existence. Her son’s words have struck her and she realizes what a horrible sin she has committed. However, it seems she says this to appease Hamlet as though her future actions do not show that she is remorseful.

Themes of Love and Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet Love is one of the most powerful themes in Hamlet, but a superior force - REVENGE, drives Hamlet's love. Revenge of his father's murder. Hamlet is confused and melancholic over the fact that his mother married his own uncle and so quickly after his father's death. Even though he does not immediately suspect foul play in his father's untimely death, he is in a state of shock. As Kenneth Muir states, "He (Hamlet) is profoundly shocked by Gertrude's marriage to his uncle in less than two months after her first husband's death, although he has no conscious suspicion that his father has been murdered or that his mother had committed adultery."

He builds up the idea that people do harmful things through anger rather than reasoning. In the play Hamlet, the characters face emotions that lead to revenge because they are unable to cope with the death of love ones. Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius kills his father, but he has no knowledge of this. The ghost says, “I am thy father’s spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk to the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away” (I.v.9-33). The ghost tells Hamlet that he is his father and that a foul crime has been committed.

Young Hamlet is in deep morning over the loss of his father and now he has to handle the remarriage of his mother to his own uncle, the man who in cold blood killed his father. Hamlet, with the death of his father, is acting strangely but his whole outlook changes for the worst when his father's ghost visits him. He finds out the true causes of his death and he is influenced by his father to seek revenge. Hamlet's father tells his son to kill his uncle, Claudius because he is the cause of his death. Hamlet loved his father deeply and would do anything for him.

He does not feel that she mourned the death of his father long enough, and married again so soon, to his uncle none the less. This soliloquy shows the angry state of mind that becomes Hamlets driving force throughout the play. Hamlets second soliloquy comes shortly after the ghost of his father reveals how he was murdered. It shows the dark and angry state of mind Hamlet has entered. In this soliloquy, Hamlet vows to remember his father, and seek revenge on his murder.

His depression, caused by the marriage, first shows in his soliloquy after the departure of the others when the whole “family'; gathers for the first time. “O that this too too sallied flesh would melt,/Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! '; begins the explanation that Hamlet despair is great enough to lead to suicide, however, canon law and religious injunction kept him from “self-slaughter,... ... middle of paper ... ...ing to his Oedipal Complex, but he and his mother both die before he has the chance to form union with his mother. He succeeds in the slaying of Claudius, but only after his mother has died by Claudius’ hands, rendering the incestuous goal virtually unobtainable. Shakespeare’s character Hamlet incorporates the spirit of the Oedipus Complex in his revenge against his father’s brother.

His task is twofold, he wants to avenge the murder of his father and he wants his mother to reveal her guilt about her hasty and incestuous marriage. Finally, Hamlet does not truly know who he is, and what he is to do until the very last act of Hamlet. This essay aims to explore why Prince Hamlet has trouble becoming a moral agent. When we first encounter Hamlet, his concerns are about his mother's remarriage to his uncle Claudius so soon after his father has died. The Prince is angry because Gertrude is not adequately mourning old Hamlet's death, and due to the insistence of Claudius that Hamlet consider him his father and king: O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourn'd longer-- married with my uncle, My fathe... ... middle of paper ... ....

He explains that “...all occasions do inform against [him] and spur [his] dull revenge.” (Act IV, Scene iii) There are many points in the book were Hamlet gets upset at himself because he isn’t applying himself to his quest for revenge. Hamlet must do what his father told him to do. His father says that if Hamlet ever loved him, he will “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” (Scene I, Act v) He considers himself weak and says “My fathers brother, but no more like my father/ than I do Hercules.” (Act I. Scene ii) Eventually...

For centuries, scholars have studied Hamlet’s fascinating and sophisticated character in order to answer the question; what is stopping him from killing the uncle that murdered Hamlet’s father and now is married to his mother? Throughout the remarkably truthful play Hamlet, Hamlet’s desire for his mother can be explained easily by the Oedipus Complex, which causes him to hesitate when told to kill King Claudius. Hamlet’s attachment to his mother is quickly made evident within the first act of the famous tragedy. Hamlet, who sulks around wearing black clothing to mourn the death of his father, first speaks in the play to insult his stepfather. He voices his distaste at his new relationship with his uncle by criticizing that they are, “A little more than kin and less than kind” (I.ii.65).

However, he was still doubtful if the information he got from the ghost was truthful. The story of Hamlet as the tragic hero who avenges his father's death begins here. Shakespeare has founded the play by displaying Hamlet as a innocent young prince who just lost his father. Furthermore, by indicating that Hamlet's own uncle killed his father, the writer employs pathos so that the audience automatically side with the main character and root for his success. Hamlet's first concern before beginning his revenge was to protect both himself and his secret plan for revenge.