Not only was he terrified that Banquo would expose him, but he was afraid that Banquo’s line would all become kings in the future, as according to the witches’ prophecies. Later on in the play, Macbeth’s paranoia comes back to haunt him. He knows that Macduff is planning war against him so he goes to the witches since their prophecies are his only source of security. This adds to his growing insanity because he relies on something evil as comfort. Guilt is another large factor that drives Macbeth insane.
The death of Hamlet’s father and his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle commences Hamlet’s depressed state; however, his internal conflict and procrastination further Hamlet’s melancholic disposition. His inability to take revenge for his father’s murder triggers Hamlet’s internal question: “to be, or not to be” (Act III. Scene i.
Shakespeare presents relationships in many different manners in Hamlet, whether they are positive or negative or if they are close or not. As Hamlet seeks for revenge for his father, the play had showed us no admirable human relationships. In the play, the failure of the relationships between Hamlet and Ophelia, Ophelia and Polonius, and Hamlet and his two friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had demonstrated the most unworthy relationships between lovers, families, and friends. Family ties between characters such as Hamlet and Gertrude are often unstable, mainly due to Gertrude marrying Claudius after Old Hamlet’s death leading Hamlet to become even more traumatized. Some family ties however, are shown in a more pleasant light; the sibling bond between Laertes and Ophelia shows how family members get along and rely on each other to hold on; when Ophelia drowned in the stream, Laertes started to fall apart, even leaping onto Ophelia’s coffin while she was being lowered into the grave.
But he does. While Hamlet slowly is driven mad by visits from the ghost of his father and the scheming plots of his uncle Claudius, the one thing that actually keeps Hamlet focused and centered are his feelings for Ophelia. Hamlet’s seemingly unreasonable actions and questionable motives toward her are all part of a ruse to fool everybody at court and actually protect her from being used as leverage by the murderous King Claudius. There are several moments where Hamlet professes his love for Ophelia in moments where he didn’t have to, which in my opinion point to where his heart really lies. Let’s explore the moments within the text where Hamlet actually used his smarts to trick the other conniving characters into thinking that he didn’t love Ophelia and was going insane instead.
In both classic and modern literature, characters always seem to have character flaws. A character flaw is an imperfection in a character’s judgment or nature that ultimately brings sorrow and destruction. This concept can be displayed in more than one character, and is usually displayed in most of William Shakespeare’s plays. Hamlet by William Shakespeare has many characters that strongly demonstrate the principal that we are ultimately victims of our own character flaws. Three critical character in the play that completely display a character flaw are Hamlet with his over- thinking nature, Ophelia with her emotional weakness and Polonius with his absolute loyalty to the king.
Hamlet’s final soliloquy occurs in Act IV, scene iv, after he learns that Fortinbras, the young prince of Norway, has sent troops through Demark in order to fight for a worthless piece of land in Poland. Here, Hamlet shows his anger at himself for not killing his uncle when he has the motivation, the willpower, the ability, and the means to do so. This soliloquy demonstrates Hamlet’s feelings of hate and anger, and also shows how he views life as meaningless and pointless. The similarities between Hamlet’s first and last soliloquies show how Hamlet is an angry, hateful, and suicidal character. Palazzi 2 Hamlet’s first soliloquy from Act 1, scene ii reveals his feelings of hate toward his uncle, feelings of anger toward his mother, and thoughts of suicide.
Hamlet’s Feigned Madness Becomes Real William Shakespeare’s Hamlet shows that Hamlet is mad. Hamlet is forced to act insane in order to find out the truth of his father's death. Hamlet does an excellent job of acting insane, so good, in fact, that it is questioned if he was acting insane or if he actually was. Hamlet's madness is an important part in the play. The question to his insanity lies in the reasons for his insanity.
Once he was crowned King, he became paranoid and ceased trusting anyone which had led him to killing several other lives. His paranoia was ambushed by his fear of losing the throne. Macbeth “fears in Banquo” for multiple reasons; he is naturally more superior, he had heard the prophecy and his sons were said to be Kings. In his paranoia, he sends murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Furthermore, Banquo was murdered under Macbeth’s commands.
These several reasons for anxiety underpin the majority of the events in both plots, and also drive the characters’ thoughts and actions, which in the nature of Shakespeare’s plays; ultimately results in an event as tragic as death. In order to examine the primary importance of male anxiety in Othello and Much Ado About Nothing, this essay will explore the psychology of the major characters of both plays and how their solicitous nature is a fundamental aspect of Shakespearian plays. The anxiety associated with emptiness is unquestionably a resonating issue shared by various male characters in Othello. The audience is introduced immediately to this through Iago’s paradox, “I am not what I am,” (I.i.65) creating a sense of dramatic artifice, in which we are introduced to the elusive nature of his identity. Although Shakespeare does this to represent his character as a typical Machiavellian villain, Iago also represents the absence of a definite human personality in the play, and part of his anxiety is based on the lack of masculinity
| Tragedies, Flaws, and Honor | AP Literature and Composition | | | In Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet, the main character, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet caused the prolonged fall of Denmark through his tragic flaw: his inability to act. His inability to avenge his father’s murder caused conflict for Hamlet and everyone around him because as the future leader of Denmark he had to be sane and strong. His emotional soliloquys let the audience feel his frustrations and pains, but they also lead us to conclude that Hamlet had to clear his family name. In Hamlet’s first major soliloquy, Hamlet is emotionally distraught over his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage. These two events cause him to wish that he could just “melt,” and that his “too sullied flesh” could just dissolve itself “into a dew.” He wishes that God’s laws did not forbid “self-slaughter.” He sees the world as “an unweeded garden” that grows to seed, and only produces things “rank and gross in nature.” His thoughts then drift to the source of his emotional pain: it has not yet been two months since his father’s death,