Self-Conscience In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet astonishes audiences through the broad representation of human nature his character Hamlet embodies. Focusing on Act V, characters such as those in the royal family prove one needs to forgive themselves before one’s self-conscience turns dark. Throughout the play, Shakespeare takes the audience on a trip through the sub-conscience. Like any work of art, the beginning explains the past and introduces an obstacle or goal to accomplish by the end. Before the play begins, the audience understands the loving life the King and Queen provided for young Hamlet which allowed him to blossom and explores his own mind. However, when the king dies and the queen remarries only “two months” (15) after the king’s death to none other than …show more content…

The gravedigger whom Hamlet speaks to doesn’t justify a body by male or female but only a body which a soul has left because “she’s dead” (108). Nothing physical matters after death. In the graveyard Hamlet also witnesses Ophelia’s body enter a grave. He sees the body of yet another loved one descend into the ground. This discovery leads to Hamlet feeling guilty for not giving Ophelia attention, therefore, allowing her to feel loved giving Hamlet one less of a reason to wish to live. After all, his mother pays little attention with her new husband around, his uncle busy ruling as king, and now Ophelia dead with his father. Hamlet does claim he “loved Ophelia” (112) however he realizes he has become someone else while grieving for his father. Causing the death of others Hamlet now yearns for revenge on his uncle and becomes capable of overlooking death. Hamlet prepares himself for his own death. This time not by suicide but by putting his life on the line in a duel against the king in seek of revenge for his father and the lives that were taken in the process of overthinking: “In my heart there was a kind of