Analysis Of William 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.

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.

64. As opposed to Hamlet’s madness by becoming too consumed within his own thoughts of revenge, Ophelia’s madness stems from her loss of identity. Though both characters had lost their fathers, Hamlet maintained his individuality, whereas Ophelia, without her sense of duty, has been rendered unto nothing. Ophelia is not the tragic hero that Hamlet is, she serves merely as a plot point and a foil to Gertrude in her purity and lack of selfhood. Ophelia is a damsel left to wallow in her tragic fate as no one comes to her rescue.

In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, human agency is demonstrated by the actions of Polonius and Claudius throughout the play. Human agency is defined as the extent of power to act freely in taking responsibility for one’s actions, and the degree which intervention is possible by one to assert a will. In Hamlet, Claudius exerts his agency on the characters Laertes, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Similarly, Polonius restricts the freedom of his daughter, Ophelia, and constrains her agency as well, accented by the patriarchal society around the characters at this time. Through characterization and an animated setting, human agency in Hamlet entices the reader to question the extent of power that an individual can exert one’s force on a

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience”(Eleanor Roosevelt). Experience in our lives help shape us into people we are today. In the novels, Hamlet by William Shakespeare and A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry the characters are presented with difficulties due to the effects of the emergency. The aftermath of being in a state of emergency results in the countries of Denmark and India experiencing corrupt government, death and violence, forcing the characters to find the purpose for their lives.

However, Ophelia truly goes mad when Hamlet accidentally murdered Polonius in mistake for King Claudius. Thus, convincing Ophelia that she is truly naive and how Hamlet never loved her because of his murder upon her father. This all leads to Ophelia not finding the purpose to live on anymore because she has gone mad with schizophrenia of her father’s and beloved’s voices that continuously repeat how degrading and unworthy she is as a human being. She was emotionally falling apart by the isolation of those voices that filled her mind of being a lower class citizen to Hamlet and ruining the royalty's reputation. Essentially throughout the tragedy, Ophelia was being profoundly mistreated by the people who mean the world to her, which caused her to be deeply affected by their words and viewed herself to be inferior and undeserving of love.

The audience and the characters of the play see what true madness looks like when Ophelia’s father, Polonius, gets killed by Hamlet. Ophelia cared about her family and also Hamlet, so when Hamlet unintentionally killed Polonius, it drove Ophelia to go truly mad. Throughout the play, Polonius warns Ophelia about Hamlet and how he feels about their relationship and he tried to keep them away from each other. Ophelia disregards her father’s warnings and continues to stay with Hamlet, and she goes insane when she is notified about her father’s death. “Ophelia: Say you?

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The character Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is seen as an important character in the play due to her extreme violent reactions that can be seen as bizarre and peculiar. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Ophelia can be seen as to have obviously gone mad, and she is treated sympathetically, and her death is also treated with respect. Ophelia’s madness in the play consists of a mad language, violent reactions and distraught behaviour. Ophelia is a subject of long time mental and emotional abuse at the hands of her father Polonius, Claudius and Hamlet, a character who is suffering from mental illness himself. Thus her deranged language might be considered reasonable, as through it, she reveals her unusually painful situation

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

Hamlet, despite being an introspective look at grief as well as a cautionary tale of the human condition, is first and foremost a tragedy. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare, is a play written in the early 17th century that follows the Senecan formula: a playwriting method originating in Rome which accentuates points of revenge, honor, the supernatural, suicide, and blood. This formula is evident throughout the play but is fully realized in the character of Hamlet. He is a tragic hero, bound to revenge, goaded by the ghost of his father, who with each decision moves closer to his inevitable death.

Often, pieces of literature have been analyzed and made into a motion picture in the hopes of further developing the themes presented in the work. Though the Shakespearian play, Hamlet, has been interpreted and converted into a film numerous times by different directors, Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation particularly captured the essence of Hamlet and helped the audience truly understand the events that transpired in Act Three Scene Two of Hamlet. It is in this act, Hamlet plan to reveal King Claudius’ treachery is played out. Hamlet exposes the king through adding an extra sixteen lines to the play which depicts him killing Hamlet’s father. With the directions Hamlet gave to the actors, Hamlet is able to make the audience recognize the king’s

In the first act Hamlet seems to be in a perfectly sane state of mind