So far it appears to be that the Prince, Capulet, and Tybalt don’t know how to handle situations. This each has their own tragic flaw that adds to the story and will contribute to the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. It is in this scene that we really see the personalities of Tybalt and Capulet and how they will affect the story line. If Tybalt and Capulet were never to have the private conversation, then we would never see them as they truly are and would never quite understand their personalities. It is said that the behind the scenes is what is real as opposed to the play that is shown.
In William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, there were numerous factors that accumulated to lead up to the tragedies that occurred. The Weird Sisters were not catalysts for these tragedies, as they only acted as a mirror to reflect and reveal man’s true nature and flaws. A Shakespearean tragedy is when character flaws become so dominant that they lead up to a number of tragic events, and eventually the downfall of the characters themselves. This was demonstrated in the play when, after being foretold by the Weird Sisters that he would soon be King, Macbeth’s true nature began to surface. His desire for power eventually overpowered his morality and caused him to perform a series of violent murderous acts.
One of the main themes of “Hamlet” is Hamlet’s musings on the nature of existence, especially in his “to be or not to be” soliloquy. The same question of life purpose applies to Stoppard’s main characters as they struggle searching for significance. In the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” Tom Stoppard raises the question of life purpose and significance through Ros and Guil to allow the reader to be forced to deal with the questions themselves. From the beginning of Act one, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern lack purpose and identity. While flipping the coin, simply killing time, Ros doesn’t look too much into the coin always landing “heads… eighty five in a row,” however, Guil looks at the results with deep thought.
The decisions one makes can influence the course of one's journey through life, all stemming from a single moment in time. In William Shakespeare's tragic play, King Lear, the title character is a flawed man whose inability to see the truth in front of him leads to his downfall. King Lear's journey through the play takes him on a path from denial to rage to isolation, leaving him, in the end, a broken fragment of the king he once was. His denial stems from his not being able to see his daughters' true colors. This denial leads to his rage, when he perceives that Regan and Cornwall are being thoughtless of his authority.
Due to these beliefs and the complexity of Hamlet’s character, it is inevitable that his thoughts of death would wander outside the lines of his religion. As the play begins, we see Hamlet in the first stages of his escalating melancholy. It is easy to observe that his outlook on life has become bleak. “O! that this too too solid flesh would melt … all the uses of this world.” (I, ii, 129-135) Hamlet’s life no longer serves any value to him.
As he says “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer...” Hamlet contemplates suicide, due to a lack of trust in himself. Hamlet does not trust that he can take revenge on Claudius and move on. Shakespeare displays Hamlet’s lack of trust through characterization. Hamlet is displayed as a macabre, pessimistic and suicidal character. .“A damn'd defeat was made.
Because hamlet is not conforming to this norm, Claudius suggests that Hamlet’s grief is not only unhealthy, but unmanly. A close reading of the play supports Claudius’s observation. Although Claudius is certainly not free from reproach, Hamlet’s obsession grief is not praiseworthy either.
“Mad in Craft” Insanity, by definition, is the “unsoundness of mind sufficient to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or sufficient to warrant commitment to a mental health facility,” and “the inability to know right from wrong from one’s doings,” (dictionary.com). One who is generally deemed to be “insane” would exhibit unruly actions without an understanding of what they were doing. Throughout the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the main character, Hamlet, can be arguably determined to be insane. However; Hamlet actually pretends to be insane in order to expose Claudius of killing King Hamlet. Hamlet is sane because he admits to pretending to be insane, he only acts insane around the
I believe that Lennie cannot be held responsible for the decisions he makes because he doesn't understand the problems they cause at all. One prime example of Lennie's inability to make good decisions comes at the beginning of the book. He threatens to leave George alone since he is such a bother to him. On pg. 12 Lennie says, "I could go off in the hills there.
. . If Hamlet were thought of as truly mad, then his entrance and his exits could convey no meaning to sane persons, expect the lesson to avoid insanity. But it needs no drama to teach that. (Alexander 2-3) Still, there are those who argue that although Hamlet was pretending, he has lost his mind after all.