Hamlet And Ambiguity In Hamlet

After hearing the witches’ philosophy, it was only then that Macbeth had actually decided to think of becoming king, so much as actually pursue such a drastic goal. Macbeth hadn’t initially planned to carry out the murder, but Lady Macbeth had convinced him to after repeatedly questioning his manhood and bravery. Lady Macbeth had said, “That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man…” (Act 1 Scene 7). In this quote, Lady Macbeth said the Macbeth was a coward and played with his emotions. By taunting Macbeth she took advantage of his insecurities of being a man. Macbeth was unable to produce an heir and as such cannot consider himself to be a real man. Macbeth had been coerced and taken advantage of by Lady Macbeth. She had manipulated him into committing the murder even though he had been loyal to the king. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth spiraled into darkness, and led him to insanity. This insanity was described as the murder of sleep. Macbeth was unable to sleep because of his guilt over killing Duncan. Macbeth says, “Macbeth does murder sleep-the innocent sleep” (Act 2 Scene 2). Macbeth is no longer able to rest peacefully as he can never get over his guilt. Innocent sleep indicates that he can no longer sleep as he is no longer innocent for committing Duncan’s

I Hamlet's second soliloquy, we face a determined Hamlet who is craving revenge for his father. “Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat/ In this distracted globe. Remember thee!” Hamlet feels sorry for his father who was unable to repent of his sins and is therefore condemned to a time in purgatory. He promises his father that in spite of his mental state (he is distracted, confused and shocked) he will avenge his death. He holds him in the highest regards because he sees his father as a role model. “Yea, from the table of my memory/ I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,”. He’ll erase all prior Knowledge and experience and leave only his father’s “commandment”. He will engrave it in the front of his mind to show his

In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, doubt is one of the most important themes. In fact, the whole play is based on the story of a ghost who claims to be Hamlet’s father, and nobody can be sure if what he says is the truth. In this essay, I am going to focus on the theme of doubt throughout the play. I will first speak about the opening scene, and then I will talk about the ghost, which is a supernatural element used by Shakespeare to create doubt in the play. I will also analyse the passage in which Hamlet declares his love to Ophelia. Finally, I will briefly discuss Hamlet’s sanity.

In the excerpt taken from Hamlet, Shakespeare uses a hostile tone to depict the relationship between Hamlet and the people he is speaking to. The author uses figurative syntax, descriptive detail, and vexed diction to show the sanity of Hamlet based on the relationships with those he interacts with. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are trying to uncover Hamlet’s mental state thinking that Hamlet has no idea but Hamlet is always one step ahead of those in the house.

Macbeth was blinded by his ambition over the throne, leading to bad choices. Maybe the throne could have approached Macbeth in a different and more peaceful manner but his ambition made him too eager for a faster resolution, thus killing the King. He chose to ignore his morality, knowing that what he was doing was wrong, yet he continued otherwise. His sleepless nights and horrid dreams should have been enough to change his mind but this did not stop the tyrant. Being a totalitarian ruler also took effect. There was no reason why Macbeth needed to rule this way. King Duncan was dead and there was no proof that Macbeth had killed him. Macbeth chose to rule this way for his own reasons. Once Macbeth turned from the loyal and noble warrior that he was into King, he became a tyrant. One who wanted things done when he said it, once he said it, who the people

As Shakespeare once wrote, the world is simply a giant human spectacle with a nonexistent offstage, no break away from the largely populated audience. In Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, a wandering ghost who resembles the late king, calls the titular prince of Denmark to action, telling him to avenge the king's murder. Despite immediately agreeing to kill his uncle and the current king, Claudius, Hamlet does not fulfill his promise right away, instead deciding, "to put an antic disposition on" around the people at Elsinore (Shakespeare 1.5.192). As Mercer states, "almost anything [Hamlet] tries to do must draw attention to himself" and in so doing, Hamlet is responsible for his death because his knowledge of his father's death becomes obvious

In any historic piece of writing, there are going to be discrepancies in how the text is interpreted, which leads to differences in how it’s portrayed to the audience. One of the most diversely interpreted pieces of writing is Hamlet, and through no fault of our own, more so Shakespeare who didn’t quite give the full disclosure in any of his writings. In order to isolate the differences of interpretations amongst the famous “To be or not to be” speech, we watched four different films about Hamlet, and isolated a single scene where Hamlet delivers this speech. Each director tries to send their own message in how they interpreted the text through character, setting, diction, and tone. Amongst the four versions, starting at Sir Lawrence Olivier

Early in the play, Macbeth’s murder of the king leads to wicked dreams and less sleep which show weak of a character macbeth really is because he never wanted to kill anyone but his wife forced him and after he killed, he constantly saw horrifying dreams and could not sleep no more and was just not able to handle the consequences. After Macbeth killed Banquo, he starts to feel guilty and he tells lady Macbeth “Sleep no more!” to all the house. “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more”.(2.2.54-57).

MacBeth deprivation of sleep also caused hallucinations of death. One scenario is after Banquo is killed and MacBeth sees his ghost at the dinner table. He then proceeds to speak to it saying “But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools,” arousing questions and suspicion from his friends (3.4.83-85). Towards the end of the play, Lady MacBeth becomes very sick and as the doctor found from her sleepwalking, tells MacBeth that her disease is something “the patient, Must minister to himself,” because the doctor knew her sickness was her guilty conscience (5.3.48). The sickness, or her guilt within was too much for Lady McBeth to carry, so in the end, she ends up killing herself, proving that a guilty, fearful mind cannot be something covered up in sleep. MacBeth also ends up dying in the end as well, showing that his unreasonable actions, caused by the lack of a clear conscious and peaceful mind all come from his lack of a good-night’s

After Lady Macbeth tries to reassure Macbeth of what he’s done to Duncan he disagrees with her because of the dreams he has been having. Macbeth says “In the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly” (III.ii.21-22). What Macbeth is saying is that he has not been sleeping well because he has been having nightmares. Macbeth is having trouble sleeping because the witches have made him insomnious to bring him to his fatal end. Because the witches can present an obstacle for someone to sleep shows power because sleep is a crucial part to ones life. For example not getting enough sleep in the real word can lead to people being more accident

1. Does Gertrude tell Claudius the truth about what happened between her and Hamlet? Is she following Hamlet's advice at the end of 3.4? Why do you think this is?

Authors express the complexities of being human by using figurative language. figurative language exaggerates feelings or just simply expresses them in a way compared to something else so you understand the way the character feels. Figurative language can take one emotion and describe it in many different ways. For example one feeling can be expressed using a smile, metaphor, personification, or any literary device.

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

William Shakespeare undoubtedly achieved one of his greatest characterizations when he created the role of Hamlet, in the tragic play Hamlet. Hamlet's appeal to audiences almost certainly stems from his many human weaknesses. The one for which he is best known is indecisiveness, but his inconsistency may well be an even more outstanding characteristic.

One loses many opportunities every time they hesitate to act. Whether it be unintentional or not, it all depends on the subject in question. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, the character Hamlet shows qualities that are evident in his soliloquies. Since the beginning, Hamlet is unable to control his emotions towards Gertrude and Ophelia. He tends to overthink, generating doubt around life and death. Though impossible and inconvenient at times, Hamlet strives for an idealistic approach, such as justification for killing Claudius. Hamlet’s complex personality and unpredictable nature delay the commitment he makes to avenge his father.