Real Hamlet Research Paper

Topic 2. As the son of a murdered noble, Hamlet is obligated to avenge the death of his father. It was the many losses faced by Hamlet in his life filled with extreme tragedies that forced him to avenge his father’s death from Claudius”.“In ‘Hamlet’, a play by William Shakespeare; the protagonist, Hamlet throughout the play is perceived to be mad however Hamlet’s insanity was more than an act. Hamlet's father's ghost sent him on a mission to kill Claudius to avenge his death, he tried to go but he kept hesitating back and forth. It was not that he was unfaithful, and he did not want to do it, but he was not done thinking it out. Every time he was about to do the deed

The Ghost’s appearance troubles Hamlet again in a different way at the end of Act Two, when Hamlet questions whether or not the apparition he has seen is really the ghost of his father. He believes that it is likely that what he saw was really an evil spirit trying to trick him into sinning, for, as he says, “the devil hath power / T’assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps…abuses me to damn me” (2.2.628-32). His concern is legitimate; however, it causes him to delay further due to his worries about sin and what could happen to him should he decide to take action if the Ghost is in fact evil. When Hamlet attempts to work himself into a frenzy by insulting himself and climactically cursing Claudius with caustic epithets, he is incapable of maintaining his emotion and he orders his brains to turn about, bringing himself back down to logic and reason. He feels that he cannot act without some sort of proof of the truth of what the Ghost has said, and therefore he arranges to “catch the conscience

When Hamlet sees the ghost he is shocked that Horatio and Marcellus were being truthful, he immediately starts rejoicing and asking the ghost questions “Say why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?”

There had been many sightings of the late king outside the palace gates. Some of the guards told Hamlet about it, and Hamlet wanted to see the ghost for himself. Hamlet stayed outside the palace gates with the guards, as the Ghost always came at a certain time. When the time has come, the ghost shows up, and Hamlet chases the ghost into the woods. The ghost would not speak to anyone except for Hamlet. Hamlet and ghost discuss Hamlet’s father’s death. The ghost informs Hamlet that his father was murdered by Claudius. Claudius, who was jealous of Hamlet’s father for being the king, waited for him to take a nap, and then poured some poison into his ear. Claudius witnessed his own brother’s death. At first, Hamlet does not know if this ghost is the devil in disguise, but what he

In the play by William Shakespeare, the ghost of King Hamlet approaches his mourning and depressed son, Hamlet, who is still affected by his death. The ghost explains to Hamlet how he died and demands that Hamlet avenge his death. Note how the ghost approaches Hamlet when he’s the weakest and still mourning to persuade and manipulate him into taking revenge for him. In Act one Scene 5 the ghost states, “If thou didst ever thy dear father love-/ Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” The way King Hamlet words his request is more as a challenge; in which Hamlet’s love for his dead father can only be proven by carrying out whatever his father wishes. The ghost influences most Hamlet’s behavior, which not only affects the plot, but also the relationships with other characters. The ghost influences the relationship between Hamlet and his mother, Gertrude. He becomes angry at Gertrude because of her fast marriage with his uncle Claudius. Through the use of innuendos, antic disposition, and metamorphic plays, Hamlet makes it his duty to get King Claudius back for killing his father. Hamlet agreed to avenge his father without second thought. As the play advances, Hamlet begins to doubt the apparition. In act 3 Hamlet begins to have second thoughts and states, “The spirit that I have seen/ May be a devil…” This shows Hamlet’s inner conflict between listening to his father and avenging his death or following his ethics. To be sure that Claudius

Hamlet questions the true intentions of the ghost and whether it be “a spirit of health or goblin damn’d,” (1.4.669). The Ghost enlightens the Prince of the treason committed by his uncle Claudius, which Hamlet doubts the legitimacy for an instance. According to “Hamlet’s Precarious Emotional Balance,” “Hamlet conceives a way out of his uncertainty, a way to make certain that he has not, because of his melancholy, simply hallucinated the ghost's revelations or been tricked by an evil spirit,” (Lidz). Hamlet develops a scheme to “catch the conscience of the king” by staging a play that depicts the murder of King Hamlet precisely (2.2.581).

In the first Act in the play, Hamlet is the last person to see his deceased father. Granted, Hamlet is the only one to speak to the ghost and he is by himself when he does, but the guards and even Horatio, “Before (his) God, (he) might not this believe. . . Without the sensible and true avouch. . . Of (his) eyes. (Act I Scene I Lines 56-8)” serve as witnesses that there is indeed a ghost and it is not just a figment of Hamlet’s imagination.

In the beginning of play we find out that Hamlet father's ghost has been seen by Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo. Horatio advises them that they should tell Hamlet about seeing the ghost of his father. Since he was not able to get the ghost to speak to him. He does not think that the ghost will refuse to speak to his son Hamlet. When they tell Hamlet that they saw the ghost, he insisted on going back with them to speak with the ghost. The ghost made Hamlet follow him so that he could inform him of how he was murdered by Claudius hands and orders Hamlet to avenge his death. Hamlet decides that he needed to find more evidence to support the claim the ghost made. However, the Devil can adopt a pleasing form that can

Hamlet is saying that he thinks the ghost he sees is the devil. He says the devil takes a pleasing shape; the ghost is the devil disguised as Hamlet's father. The ghost is trying to get Hamlet to murder Claudius. Hamlet thinks the ghost is the devil because he doesn't think his father would ever tell him to do something like murder his own brother. A person who was not crazy would never even consider killing

When Marcellus, Bernardo, and Horatio first lay eyes on the ghost, they all marvel at how much it resembles the king in all his glory; he is decked out in a full suit of armor. In fact, it is “the very same armor he had on/When… He smote the sledded Polacks” (I.i.60-63). The king clearly had a reputation of striking down his enemies and fighting on the front lines for his country. Due to his fighting nature, however, the king made an enemy of many, including young Fortinbras, and he reveals to Hamlet that he was murdered in a “most foul, strange, and unnatural” manner (I.v.28). The ghost then beseeches Hamlet to “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder,” implying as well that Hamlet will probably have to kill his uncle and the new king, Claudius. In a time such as medieval Denmark, this would seem just and reasonable, seeing as the ghost of the king Hamlet is a fair representation of the kind of men and actions Danish society

So what is sanity? What is it insanity? There are many definitions of sanity and insanity. In general, sanity is known as having a control over the mind that secrets rational thoughts. On the other hand, insanity is when the mind begins to come up with strange things that make no sense. In the play, Hamlet is seen as a sane person, because he plans his “act” of insanity, other characters believe that he is sane, and he has a logical conscience/thinking.

The trauma of losing his father leaves Hamlet at the mercy of his grief causing/provoking him to spiral into madness where he is unable to accept that everything cannot be known. Hamlet is crippled by the doubt that arises from the uncertainties of the afterlife causing him to lose a golden opportunity to seek revenge. “Now might I do it pat. Now he is a-praying./ And now I’ll do ’t.

Norman Cousins accurately describes what true tragedy is when he states that “The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live”. This quote can be applied in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as well. For instance, the common belief in William Shakespeare's Hamlet is that the play is categorized as a tragedy because many key character’s outcomes result in death. Indeed, many important characters, such as Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, and Gertrude help to advanced this tragic theme. However, when the text is thoroughly examined, it can be proven that Hamlet is truly a tragedy because of how characters choose to lives their lives.

What is Hamlet about? Maybe a summary of the plot could answer this question but it wouldn’t do it justice. However it’s impossible to narrow down any of William Shakespeare’s work to one theme. The fact is, that all of Shakespeare’s plays are about many things. There are many ways to look at a Shakespearean play, and none are wrong of course, but it is not entirely true to say that one theme is the most important. Some of the more common and dominate themes that can be found in any of Shakespeare’s works are: conflict, appearance and reality, order and disorder, and change.

Hamlet is not the first one to see the ghost, Marcellus and Bernardo were. The next night it appeared to Horatio as well. It was only after its first two appearances that Hamlet got a chance to see the ghost. At this point the reader doesn't have much of a choice but to take the ghost at face value. If several characters saw the ghost…there must really be a ghost. It's not until Hamlet's second encounter with the ghost that the reader is asked to decide whether they buy into the idea of the ghost being real.