Analysis Of Shakespeare 's ' Hamlet '

The English Play writer, William Shakespeare had written many well-known pieces of work including Hamlet. Hamlet is known to be one of his most popular works. Hamlet was written in the late 16th Century about the Prince of Denmark. The original title of the work was The Tragedy of Hamlet, now it is referred to as just Hamlet. In Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses the mental state of his characters to prove that not all characters in books have to be one dimensional. Shakespeare’s writing shows that humans are complex, and can have different mental states. Characters throughout the story such as, Hamlet, Gertrude, and Ophelia show their not so stable mental state. First we will analyze Hamlet and talk about Ernest Jones’ Psycho-analytic study of Hamlet. Then we will talk about Ophelia and how the events that happened leading up to her death or suicide played a role into her mental state. Finally we will analyze Gertrude, the Queen’s role in Hamlet, and how she is a mentally weak woman and relies on the men in her life.

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Hamlet is a suspenseful play that introduces the topic of tragedy. Throughout the play, Hamlet displays anger, uncertainty, and obsession with death. Although Hamlet is unaware of it, these emotions cause the mishaps that occur throughout the play. These emotions combined with his unawareness are the leading basis for the tragic hero’s flaws. These flaws lead Hamlet not to be a bad man, but a regular form of imperfection that comes along with being human.

It is not easy to make a film that is based upon a play that was written four hundred years ago by a brilliant writer named William Shakespeare. The one person who I felt caught every line and scene was Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. Adapting even the works of the great William Shakespeare is a daunting task, but it takes the right mind of a director and writer to fully capture his imagination onto the big screen or on stage. If you do not know who that person is, you must be living under a rock. Literally. One of his great plays, The Merchant of Venice, was adapted onto film by a director named Michael Radford. Nowadays, comic books, novels, plays, etcetera, are being made because they contain good stories to tell to the audience.

In a dramatic work that displays a story of tragedy and revenge, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is about a prince who discovers his father was murdered by his uncle. Prince Hamlet later becomes infatuated with thoughts of revenge which introduces the plot of the play. Written during the Elizabethan era, Shakespeare incorporates aspects of that time in order to engage the audience. Hamlet’s soliloquy in act four scene four, lines 33-66, targets the original Elizabethan audience by displaying cultural, social and economic aspects of that time period.

Like a hypnotist, Shakespeare manages to entrance us in his story, drawing us deep into the world of Hamlet while simultaneously preserving the notion that “its just a play.” Instances of theatrical self-reference, or more accurately, “metatheatre,” seamlessly riddle the pages of Hamlet. Rhetorically, Shakespeare integrates words such as play, act, show, audience, stage, prologue, cue, applaud and globe to form a continuous theatrical context. Hamlet, on hearing the ghost of his father beg him to “remember me,” responds, “Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat in this distracted globe” (1.5. 103-4). Upon acknowledging Hecuba’s grief, Hamlet wonders, “Have he the motive and (the cue) for passion that I have? He would drown the stage with tears…” (2.2.588-9). But metatheatre serves as more than just an additional layer of amusement; it 's inherent power to blur the boundary between theatre and reality characterizes the world of Hamlet and reinforces the notion that “All the world is a stage and all men and women merely players.” (2.7.142-3)

Hamlet gazes up at the sky and appreciates it, “this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appearth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors” (Shakespeare II, ii, 299-303). In this line, Hamlet sees the sky as artwork that should be appreciated as something that is a blessing for us. The influence of the Renaissance is evident in this line. During the Renaissance, people looked at the world from a humanistic perspective rather than the Middle Age faith based approach. Our perspective of the world changes based on what is going on around us. If there is a war going on, we are more prone to be pessimistic, scared, and animalistic. On the contrary, if there is a period of peace and prosperity, we are more likely to feel optimistic, celebratory, and blessed. Shakespeare was undergoing a lot of external conflicts during his time and incorporated them into Hamlet’s actions, words, and behavior. Shakespeare’s use of historical references serves as a backdrop and provides an underlying meaning of how the characters develop, and their roles/expectations.

In the play Hamlet is about Prince Hamlet, The son of the deceased king and widowed queen Gertrude is told by the ghost his late father that his brother Claudius, now king and married to the Queen killed him. Prince Hamlet’s statement, “Frailty, thy woman” made is because he believes women are weak creatures. He is specifically very mad at his mother for marrying his uncle within a few months of his father death. Hamlet referring to women as being frail doesn’t really define the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia the play.

The meta-theatrical play The Mousetrap is central to Hamlet. The play-within-a play is a catalyst to the plot and works to illuminate character. This essay will argue that the scene places Hamlet into the role of a playwright who employs theatrical conventions in order to manipulate his audience rather than entertain. Hamlet transforms The Mousetrap play into an accusatory analogy of King Claudius. This scene also largely contrasts the playwright Shakespeare to Hamlet’s role as playwright as Shakespeare mirrors his own application of intertextuality seen throughout the tragedy of Hamlet. This particular injection of intertextuality provides Hamlet with the justification he yearns for, Claudius’s guilt to his father’s murder, whilst acting out moments of the past that will extend into prescient glimpses of scenes to come.

Vengeance. The one act that a person who is blinded by anger or hatred is

There are many outstanding stories that have been written by the one and only William Shakespeare, in which a soliloquy of a character is very compelling. The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a story in which a man kills his own brother and then marries the wife of his brother and takes the throne while he is at it. There are many secrets and no one knows that the original king was killed by his brother. Hamlet is then told by the ghost if his father to revenge him by killing his new stepfather/ uncle. In order to complete this task, Hamlet makes people believe that he is losing his mind in order to fulfill what his deceased father urges him to accomplish. This leads to many fatalities in the end. Also one of the most famous soliloquies of all time, Hamlet makes a compelling statement that can be interpreted in many ways.

Dramatic literature is told through a story of dialogue about a character who experiences conflict throughout the play. These kind of plays is often performed on the stage of a theatre. One of the most famous screenwriters of the 16th through the early 17th century was William Shakespeare, and his work continues to live on in the 21st century. The longest play Shakespeare had ever written was Hamlet, which is about a young prince who grieves over the death of his father and seeks revenge as he learns that it was King Claudius responsible for his death. Throughout the play Hamlet expresses his thoughts through different soliloquys. Hamlets soliloquy in Act I “O that this too, too sullied flesh” contrasts from his famous soliloquy in Act III “To Be or Not to Be”, and both reflect issues of the times in which Shakespeare had lived in.

This perspective positions Hamlet as transcendently aware of the multiple moral consequences he faces in his act of revenge. Consequently, without absolute certainty, Hamlet hesitates to act. In Hamlet’s soliloquies lie the most profound insights of psychological deliberation and ruminations on human existence. The famous “to be or not to be” soliloquy highlights the confliction of the mind that Hamlet, and doubtless every viewer or reader, has encountered when faced with a decision that will leave them scathed. Furthermore, Hamlet’s reaction, when faced with the skull of his former jester, Yorick, uncovers, in the most poignant way, the fragility of human existence and the psyche’s contemplation of death:

Hamlet’s flaw is that he thinks more than acts? Is it Hamlet’s rational acts caused his downfall (Hamartia)? The idea that we have now; that hamartia means 'tragic flaw,' or something within the character of the person who meets a tragic fall, is a fairly modern idea. Hamlet was viewed as a revenge-obsessed character and the play suggest the tragic hero’s downfall is caused by a flaw in his character. Hamlet weakness could be that he is too uncertain, spending too much time debating his actions. Hamlet’s classical hamartia, or tragic error or mistake, is truly a mistake in two ways: a mistake in judgment (to kill Claudius to avenge his father) and a mistake in circumstance (it wasn't Claudius but Polonius).

Throughout the play Hamlet changes drastically from the person he started off as. There were many instances in which Hanket experienced a change in his character. The first was the death of his father, which ultimately led him to want to find answers regarding the suspicious death. The second incident that changed Hamlet was witnessing and talking to the ghost of his father. In fact, this may have been the most important scene in the book as it was revealed to Hamlet that his uncle killed his father to become the new king and it was now Hamlet’s duty to seek revenge for his father. This drives him to do many unholy tasks like pretending to be insane and tricking everybody to killing his Uncle. However, this is the tragedy of Hamlet and not a comedy which is why Hamlet will die too as well as his mother he loved so dearly. One of the many talents of the playwright William Shakespeare was that he broke the limiting mold of the one-dimensional character by representing characters in all of their human complexity. Hamlet is a compelling character because he is extremely complicated. The character of Hamlet is a complex character because he has many striking qualities such as his cunningness, intellect, and humor.