When you play a part or a role to disguise your true character it harms you in the end. Hamlet's antic disposition was a tragic error on his part because it let to his eventual demise. Hamlet displays the antic disposition in order to fool Claudius, although Claudius is the only character to not be fooled. When Hamlet denies Ophelia his love, she goes mad and takes her life. Hamlet becomes confused as to whether he is insane or not. For these reasons, Hamlet's decision to portray an antic disposition is a tragic error. .
When Hamlet found out that Claudius killed his father Hamlet was furious, and got right to work on how to get his fathers revenge. Hamlet went to work by coming up with a plan to act mad so that it would hide the truth from Claudius, which was that Hamlet was going to kill Claudius. Hamlet has no such luck. Claudius does not believe Hamlet's attempt at pretending that he is mad. "Was not like madness. There's something in his soul" (III; I;). This means that Claudius does not believe that Hamlet is insane, but rather has some sort of plan being brewed. Claudius also has a plan that is to kill hamlet. This is ironic because in the end they end up Claudius is in the end murdered by Hamlet. .
Hamlet must act mad if he wants Claudius to believe him, so Hamlet uses his confrontations with Ophelia to display it. Ophelia is manipulated by Hamlet for his own personal gain. Hamlet uses Ophelia to get the word that he is mad around the kingdom. This is sad because Ophelia is innocent and she ends up committing suicide in the end. One of the way's Hamlet fools Ophelia into believing that he is insane is by scaring her. (II; I;). " I have been so affrighted". Hamlet fools Ophelia into believing that he is mad by killing Polonius behind a curtain in the Gertrude's room. This incident drives Ophelia into becoming insane and leads to her taking her own life. .
Hamlet spends much of his time pretending to be mad, that he starts to believe that he really is insane.
In fact, the first character to die, in Hamlet, is Polonius. ... This loyalty eventually proves to be fatal for him. Hamlet stabs Polonius behind the curtain, "O, I am slain."(III.4.25), mistaking the counselor for king Claudius. ... Polonius and his death helped develop and carry the plot in Hamlet. ...
It is this changed Hamlet that struggles internally and makes human mistakes. ... Hamlet . . . ... This scene turns Hamlet into a murderer and as a murderer he becomes a man who has made mistakes that can never be made right. ... In the commotion, Laertes confesses to Hamlet that the sword, which wounded them both, was laced with a fatal poison. ... Hamlet isn't a villainous character or someone the audience cannot pity for his predicament, but a likeable character who made mistakes and had faults. ...
The tragedies use supernatural incidents to intrigue the reader's interest and included in the play is a hero who has a tragic flaw, which eventually causes him to make a fatal mistake. ... King Hamlet is killed when his brother, Claudius, pours poison into his ear while King Hamlet is asleep in his apple orchard. ... When Hamlet had learned that Claudius had killed his father for his own greed, Hamlet's mind was poisoned. ... While he was spying on Queen Gertrude and Prince Hamlet, Hamlet made the mistake of stabbing at Polonius when he was hiding behind a curtain. ... Polonius also...
The tragedies use supernatural incidents to intrigue the reader's interest and included in the play is a hero who has a tragic flaw, which eventually causes him to make a fatal mistake. ... King Hamlet is killed when his brother, Claudius, pours poison into his ear while King Hamlet is asleep in his apple orchard. ... When Hamlet had learned that Claudius had killed his father for his own greed, Hamlet's mind was poisoned. ... While he was spying on Queen Gertrude and Prince Hamlet, Hamlet made the mistake of stabbing at Polonius when he was hiding behind a curtain. ... Polonius also...
Again, Hamlet rationalizes the act of suicide. ... He reacted without any thought whatsoever, and this time, the consequences proved to be fatal. ... At this point in time, he has made too many irreversible mistakes, such as not killing Claudius and murdering Polonius. ... Yet Hamlet decided to think about his decision, and this one action in and of itself sealed the door to Hamlet's fate. ... Hamlet took it upon himself to take a personal oath to avenge Old Hamlet's death. ...
In Romeo and Juliet, and in Walpole's novel, all of the characters suffer the consequences of paternal transgressions, but for Juliet and Matilda, the consequences of their fathers' mistakes are fatal" (15). ...
An example of a tragedy would be Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which Hamlet is a great prince, passionate yet indecisive, and it is his inability to make decisions that becomes his mortal flaw that contributes to his ill fate. ... It is not some king with a fatal flaw, it is the guy next door. ...
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