Consecutive misconceptions cause a fallacious interpretation of reality, broadcasted by the power of words, Hamlet’s greatest strength and weakness, which cause unpleasant tribulations to each character in the play. While Hamlet possessed an ear (and mind) that had the ability to filter fabrications, other characters appeared to be less fortunate in determining what seems to be and what is. One of the most interesting things in Hamlet is that every figure is predestined. The first individual we happen upon that is the first to perish, is King Hamlet, who was envenomed via his ear by his brother, Claudius. The ghost, having Claudius’s erosive and unethical ways in mind, vocalizes how these qualities will be undesirably executed in Denmark.
“TRUE!-NERVOUS-VERY, VERY dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them.” (1) Can anyone reading this honestly conclude anything else of the narrator but total madness? He continues with attempting to justify his action in murdering the old man by trying to convince the reader it isn’t that the narrator didn’t love or like the old man, but that the old man had an eye that drove him to it. “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.
When Horatio first saw the ghost he remained even tempered and even ordered for it to say what they wanted to know. “If thou art privy to thy country’s fate ….O, speak! Or if thou hast uphoarded in they life extorted treasure in the womb of earth….Speak of it, stay and speak!” The only decision that Horatio did not agree with Hamlet on, was the decision that cost Hamlet his life. Although Hamlet died, he asked Horatio to complete an important act. .“If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart…Absent thee from felicity a while…and in this harsh world draw thy breath is pain…to tell my story.” Hamlet asks his friend to tell his story after he actually dies.
O heavy burden!”. His hypocrisy and corrupt nature is demonstrated when he speaks to Laertes, through irony, “There’s such divinity doth hedge a king”, as God did not protect old Hamlet from being murdered by Claudius. Despite this Claudius is not utterly evil; he does love Gertrude and recognises that his “offense is rank ... smells to the heavens”. Claudius unlike Hamlet manages to manipulate fortune and take what he wants (the throne, and Gertrude), the end result justifying his means. Polonius effectively demonstrates notions of corruption throughout the play.
Polonius, Laertes, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, and yes, even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Hamlet struggles to turn his desire for revenge into action, but he spends the majority of his time waiting rather than doing. Multiple theories have been
In the night, they bump into each other and think that they bumped into a ghost. They said that the ghost of King Hamlet might have appeared. They are doing nightshifts and long day shifts which indicate they are not of the royal or high class. Also they don’t seem very knowledgeable. 9.
This creates a mysterious and mystical atmosphere, which creates suspicion as to why they are using their powers. The scene starts off with the witches being in a deserted place with thunder and lightning. The sound effects of these elements set the strange atmosphere of the play that Shakespeare wanted to achieve. All these elements give a huge dramatic effect that grabs the reader’s attention making them wonder; what are these witches doing. The presence of the witches introduces us to a dangerous and dark play.
Mr. Utterson explains quite often, “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: ‘“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way,”’ By referring to the tale in the Bible of Cain and Able, the reader can easily understand Mr. Utterson for who he really is. The second allusion describes the relationship of Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Lanyon explains to Mr. Utterson, “such unscientific balderdash,” added the doctor… “would have estranged Damon and Pythias.” He refers to the
Hamlet who is focused on getting revenge on Claudius ends up stabbing Polonius who is behind the curtains as Polonius drops to the floor, Gertrude calls Hamlet's deed “most rash and bloody”(3.4.27). The ghost suddenly enters, visible only to Hamlet. He addresses it, prompting Gertrude (who sees nothing) to think he has now positively lost his mind. The most prominent confession of sanity then comes after as Hamlet says to Queen Gertrude, “I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft” ( 3.5.188). He is trying to reveal to his mother that he is not truly insane but is instead acting.
In the passage “Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, ...Remember me,” (I.v.42-91) in Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the Ghost thoroughly describes to Hamlet about the horror of its situation. Before this occurrence, Hamlet hears from his friend Horatio that he believed to have seen the spirit of Hamlet’s deceased father. Despite any warnings of temptation, Hamlet decides to find and talk to the Ghost out in a remote area, where it speaks quite briefly about how Claudius is actually the original king’s murderer. After the ghost vanishes at daybreak, Hamlet, overwhelmed with anger, swears to avenge his father and plans to do so by feigning insanity and killing his uncle in the process. Built up by the ominous atmosphere and the presence