Hamlet's character is very unpredictable. He is able to be very sweet, innocent .
and trustworthy, and quickly transform to a hostile, violent state. Initially thought to be a .
sweet prince, Hamlet grows hostile when his father is murdered by his uncle, his mother .
betrays his father, and his friends" betray of him. Hamlet is extremely intelligent, .
emotional, and examines feelings. However, at some times is insecure of his own .
rightness and tends to procrastinate. He is able to have a sense of trust at times and his .
actions are proof of these characteristics and many others.
The trusting attitude of Hamlet, as well as some of his procrastination is shown .
when he first comes across the spirit of his dead father Hamlet. Immediately after they .
talk, Hamlet is ready to avenge his father's death because he trusts and believes that what .
the spirit tells him is the truth. Hamlet promises that he will kill Claudius, his uncle: .
"Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, .
May sweep to my revenge" (Act I scene v.p23-24). However, after much examination an .
thought he begins to doubt what his father has told him, and starts to become suspicious .
and paranoid, believing that the ghost was really an evil spirit and not his father. At the .
end of the scene he shows some of his procrastination when he seems prone to put off the .
revenge: "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite/ That ever I was born to set it right!" .
(Act I scene v. p28).
Hamlet's character is mainly seen throughout his soliloquies. In his soliloquies .
he seems to have a continuing internal battle between his mind and his heart. It seems as .
if he would rather follow his heart, but finds it hard to forget his mind. He continually .
looks on the bad side of things and talks about killing himself. Although Hamlet .
anxiously wants to seek revenge and plans it out, he cannot bring himself to commit the .
murder and is in constant search of justification to kill Claudius.
Hamlet Hamlet is a young man who's father dies and his life is turned upside down. ... Hamlet is battling his conscience. ... Hamlet is extremely indecisive. ... Hamlet wants to kill his uncle because he killed hamlets father. ... Hamlet only trusts Horatio. ...
The old king Hamlet is murder by Claudius and therefore Hamlet must take his revenge. ... Hamlet begins to doubt the ghost. ... Hamlet is contradicts himself. ... Hamlet's next problem is that of morality. ... Hamlet's flaw of irresolution, the uncertainty on how to act or proceed, is shown when Hamlet sees a play and the passion the actors had, after Hamlet's third soliloquy, in Hamlet's fourth soliloquy, and in Hamlet's indecisive pursuit in avenging his father's death. ...
Hamlet In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet never loses his sanity, in his plan to feign madness. ... It is after this statement that Hamlet begins to act mad. ... Guildenstern asks Hamlet what he means by this and Hamlet professes he is "" . . . but mad north-north-west. ... Polonius believe he [Hamlet] was mad. ... In a conversation, Gertrude questions Hamlet's sanity. ...
Hamlet In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet never loses his sanity, in his plan to feign madness. ... It is after this statement that Hamlet begins to act mad. ... Guildenstern asks Hamlet what he means by this and Hamlet professes he is "" . . . but mad north-north-west. ... Polonius believe he [Hamlet] was mad. ... In a conversation, Gertrude questions Hamlet's sanity. ...
Laertes is a mirror to Hamlet. ... Laertes is decisive and Hamlet is not. ... Fortinbras acts as Hamlet's inspiration; he motivates Hamlet to go forward with his plan to kill Claudius, which in the end leads to Hamlet's downfall. ... Horatio is Hamlet's friend and solid rock on whom Hamlet can trust and depend. ... Horatio cared for Hamlet greatly, and so Hamlet cared greatly for Horatio. ...
KING Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET At supper. ... If Claudius does not stand on one side of a titanic conflict, his betrayal of Hamlet's father and Marriage to Hamlet's mother, do ignite one: Hamlet's conflict with himself. ... In the end Hamlet dies along with most of the principle characters whether they were duplicities against Hamlet or not. ... By the end of the play Hamlet has thoroughly explored the question but like Hamlet, it remains an enigma. ...
Hamlet The study of Shakespeare's Hamlet has been one that is very extensive as well as enormous. ... A critic of Hamlet once said, "a man set out to read all the books about Hamlet would have time to read nothing else, not even Hamlet." ... "Hamlet is the tragedy of reflection. ... For where Hamlet saw that "the time is out of joint," Hamlet himself was "out of joint." ... (Mack. 64) Hamlet begins his questioning with the death of elder Hamlet. ...
Hamlet 1 Throughout Hamlet, Hamlet expresses his thoughts via several soliloquies. ... In this scene, Hamlet is being "set up" by Ophelia, Polonius, and Claudius. ... This is quite different than the "emotional Hamlet" seen in 1.2, or the "vengeful Hamlet" seen in 1.5. ... The three claim to be concerned for Hamlet's mental state of mind. This is ironic, because as the characters within the play see Hamlet mentally deteriorating, readers see Hamlet mentally developing. ...
Hamlet Tania Kozie-Slobodzian Hamlet is categorized as one of Shakespeare's tragedies. ... Horatio a friend of Hamlet tells Hamlet that he is afraid because he thinks he has seen a ghost who resembles the late King. ... The Ghost of Hamlet's father appears in front of Hamlet. The ghost is in fact Hamlet's late father. ... Now that Hamlet is said to be crazy, Polonius goes to the King and tells him about Hamlet's strange behavior concerning Ophelia. ...
