Analysis Of ' Shakespeare 's ' Hamlet '

The dramatic importance of Ophelia’s funeral is that this is where Hamlet finally reveals his love for Ophelia. Hamlet says, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not with all their quantity of love/Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?”(5.1.247-249). This is dramatic because, throughout the whole play, this was the only scene where he confesses that he loves Ophelia. In most of the play, he was mistreating and rude to Ophelia.

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.

The speech of Hamlet “O that this too sullied flesh would melt, … But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” (1.2.129-159) is where we can see Hamlet’s sadness towards his mother, Gertrude and his uncle Claudius and feels disappointed about their decision of getting married. Hamlet is seen to be too upset after his father’s death. It’s not even a month has passed and he gets to hear another news about his mother Gertrude and uncle, Claudius getting married. In the beginning of Act 1 Scene 2, King Claudius gives a speech to his courtiers, telling them about his recent marriage to Gertrude, mother of Hamlet and his brother’s widow. Claudius says that he mourns his brother but has chosen to balance Denmark’s mourning with delight of his marriage. He also mentions in his speech that young Fortinbras has written to him, rashly demanding the surrender of the lands King Hamlet won from Fortinbras’s father, and dispatches Cornelius and Voltimand with a message for the King of Norway, Fortinbras’s elderly uncle.

The two clowns, or better known as gravediggers, are digging a grave for someone. The “she” they’re talking about is Ophelia. They are questioning whether if Ophelia committed suicide or if her death was accidental. According to the second clown, Ophelia is only given a Christian burial because she was an upperclass women.

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.

Towards the end of the play, there are two scenes in the graveyard. One is when Hamlet picks up a skull, and the gravedigger tells him that the skull belonged to Yorick, the old king's jester. Hamlet tells Horatio that he knew Yorick, and then realizes what we all become after we die, dust. He then plays with the idea of life and death, and describes the finality of it. The gravedigger scene is the tragic conclusion of the play. The second scene of comedy in this scene is when the gravediggers argue whether Ophelia should be allowed to be

In the graveyard scene, Hamlet’s cynical yet philosophical analysis of the skulls and his meeting with the clowns lightens the mood of the audience even in such a dark place as a cemetery. Labeling the first skull “a politician... that would circumvent God,” (Line 68) the second as a “lawyer” (Line 87) who doesn’t have his “tenure and his tricks,” (Line 88) and the third as “Yorick” (Line 160) a “fellow of infinite jest, ” (Line 167) Hamlet develops to become more human, and his character becomes increasingly mature. The characters of the clowns are also used as comic relief served to humor the groundlings. A debate over whether “she drowned herself wittingly” (Line 203) (Act 5, Scene 1) or whether “she drowned”, eases the tension brought on by the unfortunate death of Ophelia and prepares the audience for the next scene.

1. How much time has passed between Act I and Act II. How do you know?

The scene opens with the legalistic chop-logic between two grave diggers.Commenting on the Ophelia’s death by drowning,the first clown speaks in a light-hearted

Hamlet by Shakespeare is a very wonderfully written book that contains so many literary elements and motifs throughout it that it is still one of the most debated and talked about pieces of literature ever written. It begins with a very mysterious opening that sets the pace for the rest of the book. The old king of Denmark has died and he has returned as a ghost to inform his son, who is also named Hamlet, of the terrible misfortune that has befallen him and left Denmark in a political and emotional turmoil. He has come to inform the young Hamlet that his uncle Claudius murdered the old king in order to gain access to the throne by remarrying the widowed queen a mere two months after he has passed. The timing is very important because it

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.

Horatio and the sentries enter telling Hamlet of the alleged appearance of a ghost, who they believe to be the old King, Hamlet’s father. Hamlet investigates the allegation of his deceased father’s ghost. Upon arriving Hamlet sees the ghost, and the ghost tells Hamlet to follow. As his friends try to stop him Hamlet demands that they let him follow the ghost. Hamlet follows it up onto a tower, where it reveals its identity as the Ghost of Hamlet 's father. He tells Hamlet that he was murdered by his brother King Claudius. Claudius pours poison into the late King Hamlet 's ear, which killed him. Hamlet does not at first accept this as the truth, and then turns “mad”.

Have you ever lost your mind completely because of thinking too much or just completely failed at a certain task because you didn’t put in any thought whatsoever? Shakespeare has written numerous profound plays and overtime he has come up with a diverse “roster of character types: avengers, clowns, courtiers, kings, lovers, madmen, malcontents, scholars, soldiers, villains … but no thinker” ( ). What is interesting about Hamlet is that it’s ingenious how Shakespeare illuminates the human experience through having the protagonist of the play fall in a tragedy of inaction rather than action. Through juxtapositions and countless soliloquies, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has demonstrated to the world that it is fatal to overthink a situation, however, it can be equally as harmful to act irrationally or impulsively. The key is to put in a reasonable amount of thought and then take action after a respectable time frame and with careful consideration.