The Acting And Speaking Out Of Reason In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet is very private with his grief. His mourning for his father is long and drawn out. He mulls over how he is going to act and defers action until a perfect moment.

In addition, Hamlet was a philosopher rather than a man of action, unlike Claudius and Laertes. He himself sees that one of his problems is to "think too precisely on the event." He is intellectual and reflective, preferring to ponder rather than take action.

Tony Robbins said, “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others”. Shakespeare’s writing has had many different ways of being presented because people perceive it in different ways. Whether it is a literal representation or a spin, directors like to show viewers the way they perceive the text. In the movie version of Hamlet the director, Kenneth Branagh, wanted the viewers to find Shakespeare interesting and full of action and drama. Kenneth chose the right direction to go in to keep the audience’s attention but it

   Most characters in Hamlet present themselves as something other than themselves or how as we, the audience, or another character thinks they should appear.  Two of the main characters in this play, Hamlet and King Claudius, are constantly acting as something other than their true nature.    Ironically, the characters that invoke changes in Hamlet and King Claudius to reveal their real personalities are the players, merely actors themselves, not showing true emotion: (in this short analysis, I will attempt to display the truth revealed by the players) they agitate King Claudius and allow Hamlet to see their appearance as more accurate to the truth than the appearance of "real life

When comparing two different Hamlet movies I found that one scene in particular was obviously more different than the others. I compared Columbia pictures 1996 version with Kenneth Branagh playing the role of Hamlet versus BBC’s 2009 Hamlet in which David Tennant played the honorable role of Hamlet. When comparing both movies I found a lot of similarities but there was one major difference when I compared the “To be or not to be” scene. The scenes vary in multiple ways whether it is lighting, focus, camera movements, and even the actors that play Hamlet.

Hamlet’s inability to act upon his emotions begins in the wake of his father’s death and his mother’s instantaneous/hasty marriage to Claudius. Criticized for his prolonged mourning of his late father and insistence from his mother to move on, Hamlet must momentarily seize publicly grieving for his father and in a lengthy expression of torment, contemplates suicide as he agonizes over the dreads of life and the reality that “[he] must hold [his] tongue,” in regards to his mourning (1.2.164). For the sake of his mother’s request, Hamlet anguishes over having to refrain from speaking of his grief, only to deliver a prolonged speech of his woes of mourning. While everyone in the kingdom of Denmark embraces the new king,

When Hamlet is in the presence of certain people he acts differently, he acts like any other normal individual, he is smart, is able to thoroughly think every plan or idea he has and he is fully aware of his surroundings. Although he tends to procrastinate he is able to follow through with his plans, instead of saying one thing and doing another. An example is when Hamlet saves his life on board with pirates by thinking quickly and most

    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.

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet there are many unanswered questions such as if Hamlet is really mad or if it is just an act. There are many film adaptations which use their movie elements in order to hint towards the answer of these questions. In Gregory Doran’s film interpretation Hamlet starring David Tennant, David Tennant truly shows the raw emotions of Hamlet. He shows how Hamlet feels through his movements and facial expressions. These little things allow the viewer to see the true meaning and intention behind Hamlet’s words.

Shakespeare's dramatic treatment of struggle is clear through Hamlet's inability to take action and carry out his duty to his father. Before avenging his father's death, Hamlet first puts on a play "to hold...the mirror up to nature," in an attempt to reinact the events of his fathers death and "catch the conscience of the king" to ensure that what the ghost has told him is true. While by arranging this play, Hamlet is in a sense taking some action by trying to ascertain the truth, Hamlet reproaches himself in a soliloquy for his lack of decisive action. Shakespeare's use of a soliloquy allows Hamlet to reveal his feelings and innermost thoughts to the audience and he admires one of the players' passion and emotion. Hamlet marvels at the

In Hamlet's second soliloquy, Act 2, Scene 2, his speech moves through anger, self-condemnation and agonised self-accusation, impassioned fury and mocking self criticism, deep reflection and determination. He continuously points out his faults on how he cannot raise himself to adequate passion to avenge for his father's murder, he comments on how the actor showed grief for his lines, and how he cannot, even though he has great reason to. Hamlet's mood is far beyond normal and has gone into philosophical realms, continuously using metaphors to show his disgust and anguish for himself and his attitudes to the current affairs in the state of his own home.

A very important part in the play where a character's emotional response is displayed is when Claudius shuts down Hamlet’s play. Claudius stays unworried until the Player King pours the poison in his brother's ear. Claudius then jumps up in shock and says to turn on the lights and stop the play. This is significant because Hamlet’s plan of seeing if Claudius would give a reaction to the play succeeded, and it shows to Horatio and Hamlet that Claudius is guilty in the murder of King Hamlet's death. This also makes the plot of Hamlet more thrilling because we get to see how shook Claudius is.

Undeniably, Hamlet begins with a forthright and certain tone that reflects a very decisive and rash side to Hamlet. “Now might I do it pat,” says Hamlet, “ Now he is a-praying./And now I’ll do ’t” (3.3 74-75). The initial tone rushes and has an air of eagerness which spurs the thought that Hamlet’s current personality is impetuous and detached due to the haste and bluntness made towards Claudius’s murder. His primary mindset of a swift murder opposes the second perspective that is separated by only a mere tone shift. Hamlet becomes paranoid in addition to analytical as he states, “And so he goes to heaven./And so am I revenged.—That would be scanned” (3.3 75-76).

Throughout the whole play, Hamlet is extremely deeply emotional when it comes to everything he says. Everything has some sort of intense impact with every word that he would speak. To convey this the soliloquy, “'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell

Richard Burton played the most effective Hamlet out of the three options. This soliloquy should show that Hamlet is trying to push himself to commit the act of murder. This is because he really does not want to do it but he has to avenge his father. It is a normal human response to push yourself to do something you do not want to do, and Richard displays this perfectly. His portrayal is believable because it seems like he runs through the very emotions that a person would go through in this situation. His Hamlet exhibits more strength and energy than the other actors. He made the characters actions believable by focusing less on the intellectual side, and more on the inner turmoil he struggled with for having not had the courage to commit his