Examples Of Challenges In Hamlet

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We all Face Challenges

(Three challenges that Hamlet had to face)

Mommy, I have a challenge and I don’t know what to do! Well why not face that challenge like the strong little boy you are. But, it’s so hard. We all have to face challenges sooner or later. Everyone has to face a couple challenges in their lives, to get past obstacles that seem impossible to pass. It doesn’t matter with who or what it is that person has to face. Some people are able to get through a challenge easy, while others have a hard time. Some even find an “easy” route, while others go straight through and hit the challenge head on. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet has not just 1 challenge, but multiple challenges to face. There are three out of the multiple challenges that are really set up the theme, His …show more content…

How tragic the poor Prince lost his father so suddenly without warning to a “snake bite” while sleeping in the gardens. Hamlet after King Hamlet passed was sad and in mourning and didn’t know what to do with himself. He really loved his father and when he just died like that, it broke poor Hamlet’s heart. No one was making it any better though, not even his mother was making anything better, instead she was making it much worse for Hamlet. “ Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not seems. ‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Not customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can demote me truly. These indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play; but I have that within which passes show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe. (page 38 Lines 78-89 Act 1 Scene 2)” She made him extremely angry with her when she used the word “seem” to describe his sadness of his father