Irony In Hamlet

“Have more than you show, speak more than you know”, a quote from King Lear, written by the great man himself William Shakespeare, explaining how you may have lots but show little and you may not know a lot of things, but put forth that you do. Such as in Hamlet, the entire play is themed around dramatic irony and how you show more but the characters know less. This affects everyone in the play, and directly coincides with the madness of Hamlet. From Act 5 Scene 2 the quote “Let four captains/Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,/For he was likely, had he been put on,/To have prov’d most royal; and for his passage,/The soldiers music and the rite of war/ Speak loudly for him./Take up the bodies. Such a sight at this/Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. /Go, bid the soldiers shoot” has a direct impact on the context

Such a sight at this/Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. /Go, bid the soldiers shoot” would be the theme. I found that one theme stood out throughout the entire play and that is the complexity of action. For some reason no matter what plan Hamlet had, he could never follow through without messing it up, he could not control himself. This is mostly due to his madness getting in the way of his mind, and goals, but even in the quote explained above, he was simply to participate in a friendly fencing match. This to no surprise did not happen. Instead almost every main character involved in the fencing match died, it was not as simple as it could have seemed. Also the quote itself goes against the theme, it is a very subtle, easy quote to say, there is no hard words, or complexity involved. Almost to say that finally the complexity of the life of Hamlet is