In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet demonstrates characteristics of a person who is suffering from internal and external conflicts with both himself and many other characters during the play. Hamlets’ character tends to over think and over analyze a lot of the decisions he is faced with. This is shown when Hamlet struggles with the news of his father being murdered and his goal to seek revenge on the newly announced king. Hamlet also faces some external conflicts within the play this is specifically shown when his mother and uncle wish he would stop mourning his father’s death.
Hamlet’s internal conflict is presented when he sees the ghost of his father. He does not quite understand what to do with the information he is given. He also faces the confusion of knowing and …show more content…
That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? (Shakespeare 3.1 56-60)
Hamlet is wrestling with his decision making. Should he wait to get proof that his uncle is guilty or should he act immediately to avenge his father. He struggles through the rest of the play with this decision as to what to do.
Hamlet also demonstrates an internal conflict within his relationship with his family. He wants to love and care for his mother but he hates the fact that she remarried his uncle so soon after his father’s death. He has the conflict of his love of his mother and the hatred of his uncle. This conflict causes hamlet to lose a lot of respect for his mother and her choices in life. This is proven when he berates his mother with the speech: What devil was ’t
That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope. O shame, where is thy blush? (Shakespeare 3.4
Hamlet’s internal conflict is presented when he sees the ghost of his father. He does not quite understand what to do with the information he is given. He also faces the confusion of knowing and …show more content…
That is the question—
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? (Shakespeare 3.1 56-60)
Hamlet is wrestling with his decision making. Should he wait to get proof that his uncle is guilty or should he act immediately to avenge his father. He struggles through the rest of the play with this decision as to what to do.
Hamlet also demonstrates an internal conflict within his relationship with his family. He wants to love and care for his mother but he hates the fact that she remarried his uncle so soon after his father’s death. He has the conflict of his love of his mother and the hatred of his uncle. This conflict causes hamlet to lose a lot of respect for his mother and her choices in life. This is proven when he berates his mother with the speech: What devil was ’t
That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope. O shame, where is thy blush? (Shakespeare 3.4