Arguably the best piece of writing ever done by .
William Shakespeare, Hamlet the is the classic example of a .
tragedy. In all tragedies the hero suffers, and usually .
dies at the end. Othello stabs himself, Romeo and Juliet.
commit suicide, Brutis falls on his sword, and like them .
Hamlet dies by getting cut with a poison tipped sword. But .
that is not all that is needed to consider a play a tragedy, .
and sometimes a hero doesn't even need to die. Making .
Not every play in which a Hero dies is considered a .
tragedy. There are more elements needed to label a play .
one. Probably the most important element is an amount of .
free will. In every tragedy, the characters must displays .
some. If every action is controlled by a hero's destiny, .
then the hero's death can't be avoided, and in a tragedy the .
sad part is that it could. Hamlet's death could have been .
avoided many times. Hamlet had many opportunities to kill .
Claudius, but did not take advantage of them. He also had .
the option of making his claim public, but instead he chose .
not too. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good. For .
example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because .
he had free will. He also had only one flaw, and that was .
pride. He had many good traits such as bravery, but his .
one bad trait made him evil. Also a tragic hero doesn't .
have to die. While in all Shakespearean tragedies, the hero .
dies, in others he may live but suffer "Moral Destruction". .
In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks .
out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a .
wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful.
step by his daughter, Antigone. A misconception about .
tragedies is that nothing good comes out of them, but it is .
actually the opposite. In Romeo and Juliet, although both .
die, they end the feud between the Capulets and the.
Montegues. Also, Romeo and Juliet can be together in .
heaven. In Hamlet, although Hamlet dies, it is almost for .
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. ...
