“Hamlet,” one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, remains relevant to contemporary audiences, as it portrays timeless themes that transcend the common limitations of historical text. A compelling way to analyze “Hamlet” is through the marxist lens, comparing how different characters use power to exploit others weaknesses, or other insights into the plays social and political dynamics. By examining the characters Polonius and Claudius, we can gain a deeper understanding as to the contradictions and conflicts within the ruling class, as well as to how these dynamics shape the events within the play. Hamlet is a tragedy by william shakespeare that tells the story of Prince Hamlet of denmark, consumed by grief and seeking revenge on his
A decision is the thought process of choosing between two or more outcomes that may or may not have a great impact. When thoroughly pondered, living life is fundamentally based on making the best decisions. Whether or not they are great or small decision making is critical. Often times, it is the smallest decisions one can make that impact the even bigger decisions later to come. Starting from the time people wake up in the morning, the will be surrounded by the most basic decisions until they go to sleep that night.
A Search for Stability Does the era in which a play or book was written really matter? Nowadays, many students and even adults, argue that there is no benefit behind studying publications dating back to the mid-1500s, because life during the time they were written, is nothing as they know it. However, if life was so different at the time the pieces were different, then what make pieces such as Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet so popular? The reason why certain pieces continue to be popular and so frequently studied, hundreds of years after they were written, is due to the presence of timeless themes that carry over centuries.
Hamlet is a powerful story of love, life, revenge, and death. The themes within the play are written to live on for eternity. It is difficult to fully and accurately represent a play as great as this one. The movie that we watched in class did not wholly represent the wonders and the magnitude of the themes within Shakespeare’s work.
“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so”, is said by Hamlet during Scene 2, Act 2, of the Shakespearean play, Hamlet. This quote discusses the complexities of thinking, and how overthinking can cause a distorted and impractical idea of reality. In the eyes of a moral idealist, such as Hamlet, this contemplative state causes the character to see only the good outcomes of a situation. Through this idea, in both the Kenneth Branagh and the Gregory Doran’s theatrical renditions of the play, through the use of music, colour, and symbols in the Closet Scene, one can infer that hamlet is in fact a moral idealist.
The nature of humankind is volatile. The nature of humankind is the way humans think , our feelings and the social qualities that characterizes us as “humankind”. Humankind simply refers to the human race. For something to be volatile it must be unpredictable and liable to change quickly especially for the worse. There is no better example of how volatile the nature of humankind is than our everyday lives and what we see and hear about,but in literary work Shakespeare's Hamlet tops the list.
Buddha once said, “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” Hatred and anger have the power to blind one’s ability to love. When the ability to love is suppressed, hatred will run its course, often times resulting in a negative outcome. Prince Hamlet was blinded by his own hatred to the point where his selfishness led to a disregard of those around him. The decisions that Hamlet’s mother made, led to Hamlet’s anger throughout the play.
Would you act upon silent treachery, or standby with one eye unturned?"Marcus Aurelius once said something close to this" Hamlet returns from college to find his father murdered. Hamlet's mother married his uncle Claudius two months later. Hamlet then meets his father's ghost in the forest. On the way back he feels like many have eyes on him. Hamlet gets a murder on his hands and is banished to England.
The reader completes their examination of the Hamlet tragedy, and we agree that Hamlet is a significant text, as it encourages us to think again about our values and
Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, centers around Hamlet’s contemplation of killing his uncle in order to avenge his father’s death. His decisions and values determine his fate. However, Hamlet’s intended action to avenge his father’s death is continuously postponed due to his moral dilemma. However, this moral dilemma causes him to make the decisions he does, and therefore, demonstrates the theme of his uncertainty versus his faith. Not only does faith stop him from taking alternative routes to achieve his goal, but his uncertainty causes him to either delay his revenge or make the wrong decisions.
Over Thinking and Its Effects On Society Everyone has flaws and flaws are great to have as it increases diversity, but sometimes flaws some flaws can lead to destruction. In the story of Macbeth the tragic flaw of unchecked ambition that created a monstrous Macbeth and multiple murders of innocent people, leading to Macbeth’s unruly power and greed. While in the story of Hamlet the tragic flaw of overthinking and Hamlet’s procrastination resulted in a domino effect of unnecessary deaths because he was unable to think quickly and follow through with his plan. The flaw of over thinking and inaction results in a world where no one can accomplish what needs to be done and our world can no longer progress at a faster rate.
The personality of such characters as Hamlet from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is much remarked upon. However, it is even more meaningful to analyze changes in Hamlet’s character throughout the play. As Hamlet becomes more driven in his revenge, his actions lose morality and gain consequences. In fact, Shakespeare uses the relationship between a character’s cruelty and the meaning in the pain they cause to comment on the cyclically destructive nature of cruelty.
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the protagonist, Hamlet, dies in an effort to revenge his father, the King of Denmark, who was murdered and usurped by Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet’s tragic flaw, the cause of his downfall, is the reason why the play concluded with his own death. Ruled by his intelligence, Hamlet examines ideas and plans from many different angles before putting them into action. Although his thoughtfulness is an admirable trait, due to the circumstances, his thoroughness led to the inability to make and commit to decisions, the cause of his doom. This indecisiveness is physically manifested on the PostSecret the forms of text and visual cues.
Williams Shakespeare is recognized as the greatest English writer. One of his best works ever written is “Hamlet”, which is the most complex, confusing, and frequently performed play. The extreme complexity of the main character – prince Hamlet in this play contributes to its popularity until today. “Hamlet is supposedly the most quoted figure in Western culture after Jesus, maybe the most charismatic too” (Bloom 384). In the most famous revenge tragedy, his biggest weakness that he procrastinates completing his revenge for his father’s death by killing the murderer.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet takes the audience on a journey of a prince who is caught between two spheres of a society in which he attempts to discard the expected norms of a prince to converge to his new ideas on the type of man he wants to live as. The Renaissance was a period in the 16th century that challenged ideals that were limited and outdated. Hamlet is a humanist figure who lives according to the humanist ideals and this leads him to questioning the society and his role as a prince in the 16th century. During the play we see how Hamlet is in constant conflict with the morality of exacting revenge and his new learning and education. It is against this backdrop that I will discuss the argument of Arnold Kettle’s “From Hamlet to Lear” in relation the extracts I have analysed.
