William Shakespeare's Hamlet

The famous play by William Shakespeare portrays absolute and fabricated madness—from the overbearing grief to complete mania—and delves into the themes of sarcasm, suicide, and procrastination. Throughout the play, William Shakespeare uses sarcasm to add humor into his works. With the use of sarcasm, the audiences are able to interpret the character's true feelings and thoughts. In Act I, King Hamlet has died, and his brother Claudius, has married the widowed queen of the king. The son (also named Hamlet) has been depressed, lately, about the death of his father and is aggravated at his mother for marrying Claudius (his uncle) less than two months since his father’s death.

The play says that the inability to make a firm decision is ultimately the worst thing that can happen. Hamlet’s tragic flaw of an inability to act is what makes the audience feel sympathy for him. His inability to kill Claudius is the one of the largest draw of sympathy from the audience. These characteristics lead him on his journey to vengeance for his father’s death and in the end his own death. A classic example of a play having a tragic effect can be found in Hamlet.

Hamlet uses his anger against Ophelia to hurt her, which ends with her suicide. Hamlet is the tragic hero of the play because he is a prince with nobility that others look up to and he has a tragic flaw of wrath, which ultimately destroyed himself. Shakespeare did not intend his dark prince to be insane supports the idea that he was intended to be firmly rooted in reason. His anger results in his need to seek revenge on his uncle, the contribution to Ophelia suicide, and finally the death of himself along with many others. In the end Hamlet realized his defect, but also that there was no possible way he could avoid his awful predicament.

During the prayer scene, Hamlet instantly draws his sword when he sees the King alone. However, Hamlet does not act immediately because he figures that killing Claudius while he is praying won't be fulfilling the revenge his father asked for. “A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do the same villain send to heaven. O' this is hire and salary, not revenge” (Hamlet, pg. 68).

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Laertes and Hamlet both lose a father by unnatural and sudden death. The unnatural death of the father is brought on by someone close to the son. When Laertes discovers that his father is dead, he is outraged. When Hamlet learns from the ghost of his father’s murder, he weeps, and promises action, though he delivers none. Both Laertes and Hamlet grieve deeply for their fathers, but Laertes acts upon this grief while Hamlet carefully plots his revenge and waits for the perfect moment to avenge King Hamlet.

Critics argue that Hamlet has the first reason to be hurt by Ophelia because she follows her father's admonitions regarding Hamlet's true intentions for their beginning love. In Act 3, scene 1, line 91 Hamlet begins with his malicious sarcasm toward her. "I humbly thank you, well, well, well," he says to her regarding her initial pleasantries (Johnson 1208). Before this scene, he has heard the King and Polonius establishing a plan to deduce his unusual and grief-stricken behavior. Hamlet is well aware that this plan merely uses Ophelia as a tool, and as such, she does not have much option of refusing without angering not only her busybody father but the conniving King as well.

The Physiological Breakdown of Hamlet In Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet, the main character, Hamlet is overcome by a physiological breakdown. Hamlet was a sensitive man who was destroyed by a corrupt environment. Hamlet's dead father, the deeds of his uncle and mother, and the frequency of death caused the destruction of Hamlet. First of all, the loss of any close family member is very traumatic. Hamlet is not immune to such effects.

Never Hamlet: If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, And when he's not himself does ... ... middle of paper ... ...ot true, he kills Desdemona because of how angry and upset he is. His lack of communication between himself and Desdemona can be seen as a big part in her death. Othello, Macbeth, and Hamlet have many similarities, but they also have many differences. Othello was lead to his certain death by a lie, Macbeth was lead to his death by a murder he committed, and Hamlet was lead to his death by his pursuit of revenge that he carried out over the death of his father. Even though they all died at the end, each character died for a different reason and a different purpose.

Hamlet loves his mother dearly in the beginning of the play. In Sova’s article “Hamlet” she explains how Hamlet’s ghost father tells him to leave his mother alone, “leave her to heav’n.” Hamlet obeying his father’s orders leads readers to believe that he loves his mother even if she did marry his father’s brother. However at the end of the play his mind is overtaken by the thought of his mother’s sexual actions with Claudius and he is not able to think. In “Love in Hamlet” Rosenberg explains that “his confusion over his mother’s involvement with Claudius raises for Hamlet the question of whether all women are innately whores.” At this point Hamlet no longer cares about his mother, he only cares about her relations with his father’s brother Claudius. Although the relationship between Hamlet and his mother is uncertain in some parts of the play, by the end it is clear how they both feel about each

Hamlet's Transformation from Good to Evil in Shakespeare's Hamlet Hamlet’s transforms from good to evil in the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. Hamlet experiences a lot of pain and becomes very anger because of his father’s death, his mother’s bad remarriage, and the loss of his only love, Ophelia. The losses that Hamlet has to deal with are the anger and lack of forgiveness build in himself. This allows Hamlet’s true thoughts and character to be revealed through his soliloquies. First, Hamlet reveals his wishes that he could just melt away and be gone; because if he dies, he would be free from the world.