The Importance Of Words And Story Telling In Shakespeare's Hamlet

Many unfortunate scenarios happen in Hamlet that has shocked many readers for generations. Shakespeare's use of words and story-telling makes it easy to convey human emotion and action that come back to determine their morality in these stories. Hamlet, the main character, is faced with many complications in his life from when he was a child to when the story takes place. It’s hard to determine when he completely lost his cool, but it is easy however to follow the timeline in which things happen regarding morality, and how it ties in with today’s society. Traces of everything falling to pieces can lead back to when Claudius married Gertrude. Hamlet is appalled by the marriage for it is considered ‘incesterous’ by his father, King Hamlet, whom Hamlet finds out was killed by Claudius. Hamlet spends much of the story convincing Gertrude that what she is doing is wrong, and that she should split away from Claudius. So here, it is apparent that Hamlet is …show more content…
In the story, Ophelia goes through a tragedy that connects with the audience. She first loses her father to Hamlet, for which it was an accident. We see her go about her days looking kind of crazy. Before we know it, news makes its way to Laertes that she had drowned in a nearby river that looked like apparent suicide. With Laertes in despair, he wanted to take his righteous anger out on Hamlet. He is struck with emotions that he wanted to shoot down, but he couldn’t, and he had to live with that. It was good to see that the Hamlet family close to Ophelia decided to give her a proper funeral, for it was against Christian values to bury someone who had selfishly taken their own lives. Today, many families still hold religious values close to their hearts. The families that are out there and do deal with a situation such as this, do most likely give a proper burial, for it’s the right thing to