Appearance And Reality In Hamlet

The play “Hamlet” written by William Shakespeare, and throughout the play Hamlet learns the truth about his father’s murder. As the play goes on, Hamlet guarantees to take a revenge of his father’s murderer, who is his own uncle, who gets married to Hamlet’s mother just after two months of Hamlet’s father death. The theme of appearance and reality has been constant throughout the play. In the play, some of the characters like Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and King Claudius are unseen covering dishonesty. All of this characters were showing honesty and sincere, but in reality, they all were contaminated with dishonesty an untrustworthiness. Claudius, who recently got married to Hamlet’s mother and crowned king of Denmark, expresses the theme of Appearance and reality …show more content…
They are friends of Hamlet from childhood. Both of them were asked by the king to spy on Hamlet and all of sudden they got ready to spy Hamlet. On one side, they are good friends of Hamlet, but they are not really Hamlet’s good friends if they got ready all of sudden to spy on Hamlet. Both of the friends appear like friends: “My honored lord. My most dear lord.” (Shakespeare, II.ii.212-213). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern try to make their mission like a friendly visit, but Hamlet quickly know about their spying mission. Although Hamlet knows about the spying mission, he did not let Rosencrantz and Guildenstern know about it. This way Rosencrantz and Guildenstern try to be smart in front of Hamlet, but the reality is they are not smart. There are many different hidden masks in the play by William Shakespeare, where different characters appearance and reality is far hidden. Whether it is Claudius who try to be good and caring, Polonius to be caring and loving to his children, or two friends who set up traps to spy on their friend, all of these shows the appearances that are far different from the