The protagonist of Shakespeare's Hamlet is an extremely layered and complicated character. He has been studied for years by scholars and average readers alike and all come to the agreement that Shakespeare's incredible skill makes Hamlet's character and personality. There's always more than meets the eye. In our drama literature class we have discussed the progression of Hamlet through three main phases. These phases are inspired by the plot in which his character falls: from pre-murder and speculation to climactic action.
Hamlet 1 represents the Hamlet before his father's murder. He is a university student who loves to study and is devoted to philosophical questions. He's very calculated, analytical, and intelligent. Hamlet 2 refers to Hamlet after his father's murder. He becomes obsessed with proving the murderer and is often perceived as mad. He is no longer very logical and over analyzes situations always thinking and never acting. Hamlet 3 represents the Hamlet who is aware of Claudius" guilt. He is brash and full of anger and passion. His actions often occur with little or no premeditation, yet he always acts. It is almost a foil of Hamlet 1, his original self.
The murder of the King strikes Hamlet at a very personal level. Being an intellectual person, when he drives himself near mad with obsession, it is one of analytical thought, monologued debates, and elaborate scheming. Hamlet will sometimes wander from his state of obsessive rhetorical questions, to logical analysis but never farther until later in the play. Hamlet, although fond of questions that can't be answered (his soliloquies about suicide, death and the afterlife) needs to be certain of the murderer. Suspicion or reasonable doubt will not suffice. So when his elaborate scheme of the play within a play is carried out and Claudius" question of guilt is then answered with certainty, Hamlet 3 immerges as he follows the King into another part of the castle.
In William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, we meet an interesting character named Hamlet. ... By this Hamlet is saying that he is only mad at times. ... We can compare this to Ophelia's insanity because she couldn't snap out of her phase. ... This evidence puts forth to prove Hamlet's sanity. ... This is nothing like Hamlet. ...
His brother, now King Claudius, has murdered King Hamlet and he has married his sister-in-law Gertrude very quickly after King Hamlet's death. ... The state of Denmark is in a very volatile phase. ... Horatio tells Hamlet of the appearing of his father's ghost. Immediately Hamlet suspects that his father's death was unnatural. ... In Hamlet the hero dies while trying to restore order in the land. ...
Many people in a mania phase will shop excessively, getting themselves high debt. ... Hamlet today would be seen as being manic depressive. Most of what Hamlet does is lots and lots of thinking about how he can get revenge or if he should at all. ... It seems like everyone and everything around Hamlet crumbles. Hamlet also thinks of killing himself too which is another sign of depression. ...
Elizabethans also gave superstitious explanations for changing weather and season, phase of life, and sickness and death (59-63). ... Witches appear in Macbeth, a ghost appears in Hamlet, and fairies appear in A Mid-Summer Nights Dream. ... At least six or seven years pass before he writes Hamlet. ... Hamlet reveals that his mind is darkened by doubts and questions. ... Macbeth also reveals the darkest and most pessimistic phase of Shakespeare's life. ...
Elizabethans also gave superstitious explanations for changing weather and season, phase of life, and sickness and death (59-63). ... Witches appear in Macbeth, a ghost appears in Hamlet, and fairies appear in A Mid-Summer Nights Dream. ... At least six or seven years pass before he writes Hamlet. ... Hamlet reveals that his mind is darkened by doubts and questions. ... Macbeth also reveals the darkest and most pessimistic phase of Shakespeare's life. ...
There were actually two phases of the War. During the first phase, which began in 1946, the Vietnamese fought France for control of Vietnam. ... The Vietnam War was actually the second phase of fighting in Vietnam (373). ... General William Calley Jr. led his platoon into the hamlet of My Lai in search of enemy Vietcong (Barr 75). ...
Oedipus, Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Othello "or Willy Loman. Must classic tragedy embrace just the Aristotelian "fall of princes," or may it also include the modern common man? Playwright Arthur Miller believes that the common man can be a center of dramatic interest, and he demonstrated this belief i...
I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; 112 Am an attendant lord, one that will do 113 To swell a progress, start a scene or two, 114 Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, 115 Deferential, glad to be of use, 116 Politic, cautious, and meticulous; 117 Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; 118 At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-- 119 Almost, at times, the Fool. 120 I grow old ... ... Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speech (alluded to at line's end), but ins...
"The root of the word Pompeii would appear to be the Oscan word for the number five, pompe, which suggests that either the community consisted of five hamlets or, perhaps, was settled by a family group (gens Pompeia)"(Kraus 7). ... It is probably been done at the late phase of the style, "the individual field were once again enclosed in a real three-dimensional framework of stucco rather than relying only on illusionistic painting". ( Kraus 165) The Second Style, also called architectural, became popular in the years when Sulla's military colony was established, around 80 B.C. ...
