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Outlook On Hamlet

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The Outlook on Hamlet This essay will discuss the many point of views of Hamlet towards everyone he encounters. The dramatic changes in his attitudes towards his family and friends. The decisions he is making that will change him and everything that surrounds him. Threw out the rest of the essay hamlet will demonstrate his different personalities. This essay will point out hamlet and his changes of emotions and will be giving us an understanding of why he is acting like this towards everybody. The main points of this essay will be the emotions towards Ophelia,Gertrude and king Claudius. Hamlet will demonstrate a confusing love towards Ophelia that he might not even understand. Hamlet demonstrates an aggressive emotion towards his …show more content…

Hamlet had a confusing attitude towards Ophelia as he says “You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so (inoculate) our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.” (Act 3. Lines 127-129). Hamlet is confessing that he never loved her that he never fell in love with her. Ernest Jones says “ The precise nature of his original feeling for Ophelia is a little obscure”. Hamlet’s love for Ophelia changed after his father's death. He did not know if he loved her or not. Hamlet is confused towards her and demonstrates it by pushing her away. He doesn't see things clearly and can not control his emotions and it has affected his relationship with ophelia. He has let his revenge blind him and his emotions towards …show more content…

Hamlet says “So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word. It is “adieu, adieu, remember me.” I have sworn it.”. Hamlet is expressing his desire of revenge towards the king for killing his father . hamlet swears that he will kill the king and let his father's spirit rest in peace. The critique Phillip Edwards says “The idea that Hamlet's problem is somehow to punish Claudius and yet transcend the sheer human violence and vindictiveness which such punishment entails goes back to 1839 and the once famous but now forgotten 'conscience' theory of Hermann Ulrici. 'It cannot,' he said, 'be an entirely innocent and heavenly spirit that would wander on earth to demand a son to avenge his death.'” This helps us understand his anger towards the king and the violence hamlet has within

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