Comparing Agamemnon, Hamlet, And The Love Song Of J.

So, we can conclude that, Hamlet in this play is obviously not mature enough to handle the situation at hand. He needs to get himself out of his situation, and this is why he is contemplating suicide. He knows he is young and immature, too immature to not know how to handle everyone dying and turning their backs on each other. At this point the play is too chaotic for Hamlet to handle. But heck, that's what the whole rest of the play is for, to see if Hamlet pulls through or

According to the Aristotelian view of tragedy, a tragic hero must fall through his or her own error. This is typically called the "tragic flaw", and can be applied to any characteristic that causes the downfall the hero. Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark can be seen as an Aristotelian tragedy and Hamlet as it's tragic hero. Hamlet's flaw, which in accordance with Aristotle's principles of tragedy causes his demise, is his inability to act. This defect of Hamlet's character is displayed throughout the play.

Shakespeare’s character, Hamlet, is known for his indecisive personality. It is a trait that humanizes Hamlet in the sense that every man is flawed. However, this feature is Hamlet’s main

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark has been performed thousands of times since it was “written in 1599–1601 and published in a quarto edition in 1603” (Britannica.com). It’s popularity stems from its themes that translate across time. These themes, are seen to be relatable even to this day with the ever growing audience. Readers and viewers are able to find similarities between the current state and or even relate to one of the characters or events taking place over the course of Shakespeare’s five act masterpiece. Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark remains a viable text for contemporary readers in that it functions as a mirror.

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.

J Alfred Prufrock and Prince Hamlet overcome obstacles of the want and desire for happiness. Their pursuit of this shows how interrelated their two backgrounds are. It’s full of love, important decisions, and secrets and hidden things. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, and T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” shows how reciprocally connected two stories with different backgrounds can

Detail 3: Prufrock’s situation is not as tragic as Hamlet’s, yet it is easy to understand why Prufrock’s character shares similar tragic flaws with Hamlet’s. There is an extreme sense of

    Hamlet is a character that we love to read about and analyze. His character is so realistic, and he is so romantic and idealistic that it is hard not to like him. He is the typical young scholar facing the harsh reality of the real world. In this play, Hamlet has come to a time in his life where he has to see things as they really are. Hamlet is an initiation story. Mordecai Marcus states "some initiations take their protagonists across a threshold of maturity and understanding but leave them enmeshed in a struggle for certainty"(234).  And this is what happens to Hamlet.

It is obvious to come across the reality of Hamlet being the most trouble character. He undergoes a lot of pain from others but more like, himself. Dealing with the troubles of being completely insane blows situations out of proportion. It comes to his own senses of questioning if he really is happier dead or alive.

With Hamlet’s tragic flaw being his inability to act, he is plagued throughout the play by his immense intelligence and philosophical nature, which causes him to overanalyze each situation, rendering him unable to carry out any action in response. This is evident in the play by the frequent delay of acting out his father’s revenge due to the uncertainty of the evidence pertaining to his uncle’s crime. Hamlet’s inability to act creates a discourse between hamlet and his consciousness, generating an abundance of stress, which causes him to become increasingly frustrated as the play progresses. This frustration leads to him at moments in the play to behave in a rash and impulsive way or acting in an inappropriate manner, contradicting his methodical and reserved disposition. It is the consequences of these “inappropriate” actions that resurfaces at the plays end, to haunt the character, as Hamlet’s inability to act while using his renowned logic and intelligence ultimately leads to his eventual demise at the plays conclusion, due to his inability to act both “effectively” and “appropriately” in critical situations.

Another important character whose wrongdoings categorized William Shakespeare’s Hamlet a tragedy is Claudius. Finally, Polonius decision making in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet contributes to the tragic theme that revolves in the play. These key characters actions and skewed decision making has caused misery and affliction towards others and themselves, consequently, proving the play’s tragic theme. The complex themes, conflicted characters, and the multiple developing plots and subplots throughout the play are reasons why many consider William Shakespeare’s Hamlet to be the greatest tragedy written. Many readers are fascinated with tragedies because it is more relatable to reality and it allows the reader to visualize how characters react in the worst situations.

The tragic flaw of a human being is usually checked with the method he or she reacts with to the circumstances that life throws upon him or her. Contemporary society appears to be fixated on giving gatherings of people cases of such individuals who, in spite of the affliction of their lives, that still transcend. In fact, maybe nobody is more fit for indicating triumph over struggles than Sophocles and William Shakespeare. In both Oedipus and Hamlet, for example, the primary characters struggle with many obstacles and consequences and find themselves with unimaginable problems furthermore and are compelling to choose what the correct decision will be. This develops to Oedipus and Hamlet becoming motivated, courageous people and also becoming dishonest to themselves throughout the two books. Shakespeare and Sophocles’ plays show that sometimes when dealing with consequences and the obstacles there are different ways to react instead of leading to a tragedy. Oedipus and Hamlet’s motivation in dealing with problems is evident when the two primary characters want to find out the murderers of their father’s. Their courageous actions develop them towards having one goal, which was to kill the former King, and show courageous traits towards other people. They become dishonest to their themselves and is showed throughout the two books, which then causes misfortune for both of them in the end. Despite the resemblances of the two, Hamlet is in control of his activities, and he very

Every character plays an essential role in any story. Whether it is a protagonist, an antagonist, or a supporting character. Each personality improves the plot of the story. In the plays Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles, Hamlet and Antigone are the tragic heroes whose need for justice are center of the novel. In this argumentative paper, I will compare both characters, Hamlet and Antigone, as they seek justice but instead achieve the role of a tragic hero.

A wise playwright once wrote, “cowards die many times before their deaths. The brave experience death only once.” In this case, the playwright is the famed Shakespeare and he is referring to Julius, a Roman general who is betrayed in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar. However, this concept applies to a character in another one of his plays; Hamlet. The theme of cowardliness versus death is heavily weighed upon throughout the performance, as Hamlet struggles with an inordinate amount of uncertainty, and therefore every decision bred from this ambiguity. After the murder of Hamlet’s father, the prince perceives himself as a coward due to his inability to seize revenge because he fears for his own life.

To the outside, modern day, western observer, the role of women in Agamemnon makes a pretty clear mark as to how the Ancient Greeks viewed women. Notably, that they seem to hate them. Of the five women who are mentioned at all in the story, only one is portrayed positively, and even she is murdered and then only praised and remembered for her beautiful virginity, and her voice. Repeatedly throughout the play the women are demonized for things that are not necessarily their fault, and often times are the fault of the men who blame them. While these women can be less than morally pure, a strangely large amount of blame and doubt gets placed upon them while men are mourned for heroic deeds and have their misdeeds overlooked. This dichotomy between the two genders is perhaps clearest between the title character Agamemnon and his wife, Clytemnestra, but can be seen in sharp detail through the combination of all the women.