“Hamlet” is a grim play about greed, betrayal, revenge, and death written by William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” is Shakespeare’s most tragic play he ever written. “Hamlet” describes the story Prince Hamlet who finds out his father, King Hamlet was murdered by his uncle; King Claudius who married Queen Gertrude; when King Hamlet reemerges as a ghost. Ghost Hamlet reveals he wants his son to avenge his death. When Prince Hamlet received the new shocking information he then had an elaborate plan to kill King Claudius which causes nothing but turmoil and death at the end. Initially, when I finished the reading of “Hamlet” my emotional response was depressing because of how Shakespeare deciding to end the story. Many people will have their interpretation
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To achieve his goal acted insane, he even gave his own life in order to kill Claudius. The rising action is in Act 4 Scene 2 when Laertes and Prince Hamlet began to have a sword fight to the death. Prince Hamlet says “Drink [off] this potion! Is [thy union] here? Follow thy mother” (Shakespeare 197). This is the climax of “Hamlet” when King Claudius finally gets to taste his own medicine, well poison to be exact. Price Hamlet passes soon after Claudius from the stab wound from the poisoned sword Laertes used during the battle on page 197. With no family member for the royal family alive, Forinbras decided he will be the new king of Denmark. Prince Hamlet did achieve his goal with the death of Claudius but only at his expense of his life but others as well. One example of image in Hamlet is when Prince Hamlet describes how he feels about his mother’s quick decision to marry his uncle. “Must I remember? Why, she should hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown, By what it fed on, and yet, within a month,” state by Hamlet (Shakespeare 86). Hamlet’s mother seemed to get over the death of her beloved husband very quickly and maybe a bit too quickly. The queen is way more concern with still being able to keep the title of being the queen instead of being a mother or wife first. Shakespeare’s biggest and most noticeable theme in Hamlet is karma. The lesson he is teaching us is no matter what you do or when you do it karma will find
To achieve his goal acted insane, he even gave his own life in order to kill Claudius. The rising action is in Act 4 Scene 2 when Laertes and Prince Hamlet began to have a sword fight to the death. Prince Hamlet says “Drink [off] this potion! Is [thy union] here? Follow thy mother” (Shakespeare 197). This is the climax of “Hamlet” when King Claudius finally gets to taste his own medicine, well poison to be exact. Price Hamlet passes soon after Claudius from the stab wound from the poisoned sword Laertes used during the battle on page 197. With no family member for the royal family alive, Forinbras decided he will be the new king of Denmark. Prince Hamlet did achieve his goal with the death of Claudius but only at his expense of his life but others as well. One example of image in Hamlet is when Prince Hamlet describes how he feels about his mother’s quick decision to marry his uncle. “Must I remember? Why, she should hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown, By what it fed on, and yet, within a month,” state by Hamlet (Shakespeare 86). Hamlet’s mother seemed to get over the death of her beloved husband very quickly and maybe a bit too quickly. The queen is way more concern with still being able to keep the title of being the queen instead of being a mother or wife first. Shakespeare’s biggest and most noticeable theme in Hamlet is karma. The lesson he is teaching us is no matter what you do or when you do it karma will find