Theme Of Truth In Shakespeare's Hamlet

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that seeks the truth. Its substantive representations and characterizations of themes and characters ultimately captivate audiences, with significance in the modern era. Upon examining the play Hamlet, it is well known there is a significant amount of the supernatural, spirituality, and the powers of the unknown. The character, Hamlet, is represented through his actions and personality filled by sorrow, especially after the death of his father and the sudden remarrying of his mother to Hamlet’s uncle. Therefore, it lead Hamlet to become sad, angry, and have compassion over time, however, throughout the play many different aspects of Hamlets personality can be seen by the observation of his responses and actions to certain situations, especially to the supernatural of the ghost. In his essay, “Visualizing Hamlet’s Ghost: The Spirit of Modern Subjectivity”, published by Alan L. Ackerman Jr stated that, “the Ghost of Hamlet first appears to sentinels on the ramparts of Elsinore (120). After the

In order to take his revenge Hamlet must destroy not only the canker but also the blossom. Even though Hamlet attempts the cleansing of Elsinore as well as the morality of his revenge becomes painfully ambiguous. In his essay, “Diseased Beauty in Tony Richardson’s Hamlet” published by Glenn Litton stated, “A sense of imprisonment is caused not merely by viewing small patches of space but moreover by being trapped in the same space occupied by those confused, frightened, unknowing, hypocritical, and tormented faces that Hamlet must study if he is to act on the ghost's demand”. Generally speaking, the close-ups of Hamlet's reactions to the faces of Elsinore become a mirror of his perspective, for as he reacts to others and to his thoughts, he expresses the anguish that living as a prisoner with the doomed and dying creates in