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Research Paper On Hamlet

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Why I like Hamelt the young Prince of Denmark It is about a young prince trying to keep his word to his dead father by avenging his death. Hamlet plots exstensivly and takes excessive amount of time long when he avenging his father’s death, which is his tragic flaw. Hamlet begins with young Hamlet anger and sad. Hamlet questioning his own ambitions such as revenge and hatred toward his evil uncle. Hamlet tells Horatio, his true friend that he is going to fake madness as he loses his ambitions. Hamlet does at one point have doubt his ghost father, his reasons for delay in revenge is that he wants to make sure his uncle one hundred percent guilty. At the same time does not want to hurt his mother in the process. Hamlet is having a hard time …show more content…

Hamlet is the tragic hero in the story. The hero how he tries to resolves his problems by disguise his intentions by pretenting to going crazy. While he seriously works on avenging his murdered father. Hamlet’s girlfriend, Ophelia, is sadly the first to experience the hero’s new madness and hit pretty hard by it. Her father, Polonius, diagnoses Hamlet’s condition as madness from the lack of love from Ophelia. Ophelia agrees to be a decoy to lure the Hamlet so that the king and Polonius can see his madness. At the time of the “chance” meeting, Hamlet is already feeling quite low, and perhaps even battling the idea of suicide. As said in theses lines descride: To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd (3.1). Hamlet feeling pretty bateraterd and acts like any awsome sane person by going …show more content…

Hamlets way to tell if ghost is tell the truth and more evidence to prove cladius did kill his father. Then when Cladius leaves the play to go pray that;s when Hamlet decieds he's got his proof as said in these lines:Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines (3.2). Even though Hamelt has the perfect oppertunite to kill his murderous uncle he wants to get him good and waits, when he's

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