In the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the main character Hamlet experiences many challenges both physically and mentally that lead to his resolution at the end of the play. Hamlet develops into a distressed and deceiving character by the end of the play and has completely changed from how he was at the start of the play. He transitions from being a patient, quiet, and immoral young man but soon discovers the truth about his father’s death and the incestuous relationship between his own mother and the murderer himself. Hamlet becomes insecure of the many challenges he must face due to the hatred he now has towards Claudius, his father’s murderer, as the play progresses. The beginning of the play starts with an enraged Hamlet over
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It is in this soliloquy that Hamlet examines the question of whether to commit suicide or not. He analyzes the ending of his pain and suffering and uncertainty through suicide and says “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” (III.I.58) that being, the challenges and misery that life has to offer him. He then determines that the vagueness of the afterlife, which is related to getting the truth in an uncertain world, is what keeps humans from committing suicide because they are not sure. Being confused about his decision he decides to talk to his mother Gertrude and why she decided to marry his uncle Claudius. In this scene, Polonius, Ophelia’s father is caught by Hamlet for hiding behind a curtain and with a sudden reaction; Hamlet draws his sword and murders him mistaking him for being an intruder. After this death of Polonius, Claudius then realizes it is time to now get rid of Hamlet because of his earlier suspicions as well. He then decides to send Hamlet to England to be dealt with by the Crown for his actions of killing …show more content…
Ophelia who is Hamlet’s love goes mad with grief over her father’s death, Laertes returns from France in a fit of rage, and Claudius finally plots the murder of Hamlet. Before he returns to Denmark, Ophelia drowns in a river, and when Hamlet discovers this, he goes insane and says, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up his sum.”(V.I.269) Ophelia’s death sets the tone for the rest of the play and Hamlet’s decision upon his quest to get revenge on Claudius. In the final scene, Hamlet and Laertes have a fencing competition to compete for a few bets. Laertes’s sword is poisoned which is a part of Claudius’ vicious scheme so that he may draw Hamlet’s blood, and eventually kill him. When Larertes swings and cuts Hamlet with his sword, Hamlet also takes Laertes’s sword and delivers a mortal wound to Laertes; he then confronts Claudius about the murder of his father and thus forces him to drink a poisoned goblet, which was originally supposed to be for
It is in this soliloquy that Hamlet examines the question of whether to commit suicide or not. He analyzes the ending of his pain and suffering and uncertainty through suicide and says “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” (III.I.58) that being, the challenges and misery that life has to offer him. He then determines that the vagueness of the afterlife, which is related to getting the truth in an uncertain world, is what keeps humans from committing suicide because they are not sure. Being confused about his decision he decides to talk to his mother Gertrude and why she decided to marry his uncle Claudius. In this scene, Polonius, Ophelia’s father is caught by Hamlet for hiding behind a curtain and with a sudden reaction; Hamlet draws his sword and murders him mistaking him for being an intruder. After this death of Polonius, Claudius then realizes it is time to now get rid of Hamlet because of his earlier suspicions as well. He then decides to send Hamlet to England to be dealt with by the Crown for his actions of killing …show more content…
Ophelia who is Hamlet’s love goes mad with grief over her father’s death, Laertes returns from France in a fit of rage, and Claudius finally plots the murder of Hamlet. Before he returns to Denmark, Ophelia drowns in a river, and when Hamlet discovers this, he goes insane and says, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up his sum.”(V.I.269) Ophelia’s death sets the tone for the rest of the play and Hamlet’s decision upon his quest to get revenge on Claudius. In the final scene, Hamlet and Laertes have a fencing competition to compete for a few bets. Laertes’s sword is poisoned which is a part of Claudius’ vicious scheme so that he may draw Hamlet’s blood, and eventually kill him. When Larertes swings and cuts Hamlet with his sword, Hamlet also takes Laertes’s sword and delivers a mortal wound to Laertes; he then confronts Claudius about the murder of his father and thus forces him to drink a poisoned goblet, which was originally supposed to be for