The Conflict Between Characters In Hamlet By William Shakespeare

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Insight to Hamlet’s identity is given through the use of soliloquies and monologues. As Hamlet progresses, his thoughts and beliefs about avenging his father’s death are shown and stated by using soliloquies, asides, and monologues, one of which being the famed “To be or not to be” speech (Shakespeare III, i, 64-95). These moments of Hamlet’s dialogue, especially that infamous soliloquy, reveal his true identity as one who is teetering between deciding whether or not to avenge his father’s death.

“To be, or not to be, that is the question,” (3.1.64). This famous line in William Shakespeare's Hamlet perfectly encapsulates Hamlet’s internal struggle throughout the play. Hamlet tells the story of the young prince of Denmark and his desire for revenge on the uncle, Claudius, who murdered his father. As is the case in many works of literature, Hamlet changes greatly throughout the play. However, because of his attempts to act insane, it can be difficult to precisely map the changes in Hamlet’s character. By carefully investigating his seven soliloquies, where he is alone and has no need to “put on an antic disposition,” one can understand and interpret how Hamlet’s character develops throughout the play.

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the titular character struggles to engage in his desired plan of revenge. Hamlet shows throughout the play that he is inconsistent, indecisive, and unsure of himself, as well as his actions. The play focuses on Hamlet’s revenge; however, he continuously fails to happen at opportunistic moments. Throughout the play, Hamlet insists that he intends to avenge his father’s death through the murder of Claudius, but Hamlet fails to act on occasion because of his indecisive personality.

Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s tragic plays, portrays the story of a young man’s quest to avenge his murdered father and his quest to find his true identity. In his soliloquies, Prince Hamlet reveals to the readers his personal perceptions of the events that take place in his homeland, Denmark, and of which are either indirectly or directly tied to his father’s murder. Many critics and scholars agree that while Hamlet’s soliloquies reveal the search of his identity and true character, his soliloquies universally illustrate man’s search for his true identity.

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare conflict plays a very significant role. The play’s main protagonist, Hamlet, possesses both internal and external conflict due to the fact that he is fighting his inner conscience and suppressing his inner emotions, and he is seeking revenge on and conflicting with many other characters in the play. These internal and external conflicts this character is experiencing affect those around him. They also shape the events that occur in the drama and contribute to the overall outcome.

Shakespeare's main character Hamlet is a victim of both internal and external conflict. His conflict includes a physical nature as he goes about to avenge his father's death. Shakespeare translates further the idea of internal versus external conflict by giving it a physical nature. Shakespeare also uses soliloquies to emphasise Hamlets inner thoughts and conflict. This stands in contrast to the way he acts amongst others; with the intention of highlighting the inner turmoil he is experiencing. The infamous quote, "To be or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer…." (Act III, scene i, 58-90). It is during this soliloquy that

Hamlet’s speech in Act 4, Scene 4 shows how overthinking can cause someone to lose sight of their real goal. The scene starts off with Fortinbras ordering his army’s captain to ask Claudius for permission to take passage through his land. The captain then encounters Hamlet and Hamlet asks him what their army is doing here, and he tells hamlet that they are here to invade Poland. Hamlet then asks for a good reason of his actions and the Captain replies “ Truly to speak ad with no addition we go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”(IV,IV,16-18) This statement makes Hamlet reflect on what he is doing and says, “How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge!”(IV,IV,31-32) Hamlet is surprised at how these two sides are fighting over merely nothing and it makes him reflect and regret on why he has not carried out his objective yet. He sees the fight between the two nations as a sign that he was wrong for waiting and should have carried out his revenge already. He contemplates on the fact that these two powerful nations are fighting over nothing but honor and reflects on where that leaves him. His father has been murdered, his mother has been tricked and defiled and he has barely done anything to avenge them. This proves to the audience how overthinking can cause procrastination and the missing of an opportunity to achieve one’s goals. Just like how Hamlet’s overthinking caused him to miss the opportunity to kill Claudius

In most societies, there are different classes of power that depends on your wealth or your family’s wealth. According to Marxism, power struggles occur in capitalist societies. After Capitalism is gone, Communism comes in and takes place. Communism is where social classes are non existent so power struggles will not be a problem. The creation of Marxism is credited Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-nineteenth century to combat the ideas of Capitalism. Capitalism is where the hard working class makes money for the upper class. While the rich gets richer, the poor stays where they are. Countries like the U.S. runs with this system. Anything that has to do with the power struggle between the rich and the poor has something to do with Marxism. In William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. There is an obvious power struggle between powerful people and the less powerful people.

Hamlet faces challenges throughout the play that try his inner strengths and test his ability to handle the situation. He is torn between wanting to seek justice, and avenge his father’s death. Hamlet is also caught up in an intricate web of lies and deceit, he is considered mad by most characters when in all actuality it is just playing off of the actions of others to benefit himself. He puts on different acts trying to hide the truth, which makes him seem sincerely mad to the people around him. The truth of the matter is that Hamlet can’t decide whether or not his convictions are accurate. This dilemma ultimately leads to not only the deaths of the main characters, but the downfall of the kingdom.

Conflict, in literary context, can be defined as “the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction.” Conflicts can be external, between two or more persons, or internal, within one’s self. In most literature the conflict adds to the execution of the plot itself. Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” makes use of both forms of conflict as an essential element of the play. I will show how “Hamlet” presents inner and outer conflicts with examples of each and how their resolutions (if any) serve as a major part of the overall play itself.

The internal conflicts prevalent in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet are the reason why the play is viewed as a classic. Conflicts are imperative in tragic plays as conflicts are the stimulus for catastrophe in the end. The characters in Hamlet face inward conflicts that are equally important as their outward conflicts. Three characters who especially exhibit this are Hamlet, Claudius, and Ophelia. The conflicts that these characters face play a major role in their downfalls and, ultimately, their deaths. Through Claudius’ struggle to conceal the murder of King Hamlet, Ophelia’s guilt for Hamlet’s madness, and Hamlet’s inaction due to fear, Shakespeare conveys that each character faces a dilemma, in which there are no simple solutions.

Shakespeare’s employment of dramatic struggle and disillusionment through his character Hamlet, contributes to the continued engagement of modern audiences. The employment of the soliloquy demonstrates Shakespeare’s approach to the dramatic treatment of these emotions. The soliloquy brings a compensating intimacy, and becomes the means by which Shakespeare brings the audience not only to a knowledge of secret thoughts of characters, but into the closest emotional touch with them too. Through this, the audiences therefore gain a closer relationship with Hamlet, and are absorbed by him because they are able to resonate with his circumstances, as he is faced with enduring truths of the human condition. Through these, the struggle and

William Shakespeare uses the literary technique of the soliloquy to allow the audience to see deeper into his characters’ thoughts in his play, Hamlet. This technique helps to reveal Hamlet’s true character, expressing emotions that the audience cannot see through his interactions with other characters. Through Hamlet’s soliloquies, one may notice that his reluctance to take actions that involve death can be attributed to his fear of the unknown and his uncertainty in regards to afterlife.

Hamlet, the main character of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, is one of the most complex characters ever created. His intricacy can be seen in the amount of soliloquies he speaks throughout the play. Each one of Hamlet’s soliloquies reveals his innermost thoughts and gives the reader or audience insight as to what he is feeling at that time. Hamlet’s quartet of soliloquies illustrates how Hamlet is initially indecisive, but eventually makes a decision to take revenge against his uncle.