Critical/Analytical Response To Hamlet
Does how we view ourselves have an effect on how we react to unfairness? If there is a lack of self-respect is there a change in how people react? Hamlet, in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is the perfect example of this. Hamlet shows his low opinion of himself through how he speaks of himself and his life. His reaction to Gertrude remarrying and to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern also show how drastically he reacts to things he thinks are wrong. If an individual has low self-respect they will respond more drastically to what they see as injustice because they undervalue themselves.
Firstly, throughout the play Hamlet often shows his little amount of self-respect. Through him saying, “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself into a dew or that the everlasting has not fixed his cannon ‘gainst …show more content…
Hamlet says, “A little more than kin, and less than kind” (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 66) meaning, though he is not doubly related to Claudius he is no more appealing. Hamlet takes his dislike of the marriage out on the two of the before he even discovers the murder of his father. Throughout the play Hamlet seems to take Gertrude and Claudius marrying to be a very personal offence. He scorns his mother for not mourning her first husband to Hamlet's standards. Hamlet also very openly tells his mother that she has downgraded from his father to Claudius. “Look here upon this picture… This was your husband. Look you now what follows here is your husband...” (Act 3, Scene 4, Lines 62-73) Hamlet is actively attempting to guilt his mother about her marriage to Claudius. This is greatly caused by his own insecurity and anger over his father's death. There is nothing to suggest that Gertrude has any knowledge of the murder and Hamlet is taking much of his frustration of it out on her, reacting very dramatically. (need relating
Does how we view ourselves have an effect on how we react to unfairness? If there is a lack of self-respect is there a change in how people react? Hamlet, in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is the perfect example of this. Hamlet shows his low opinion of himself through how he speaks of himself and his life. His reaction to Gertrude remarrying and to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern also show how drastically he reacts to things he thinks are wrong. If an individual has low self-respect they will respond more drastically to what they see as injustice because they undervalue themselves.
Firstly, throughout the play Hamlet often shows his little amount of self-respect. Through him saying, “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself into a dew or that the everlasting has not fixed his cannon ‘gainst …show more content…
Hamlet says, “A little more than kin, and less than kind” (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 66) meaning, though he is not doubly related to Claudius he is no more appealing. Hamlet takes his dislike of the marriage out on the two of the before he even discovers the murder of his father. Throughout the play Hamlet seems to take Gertrude and Claudius marrying to be a very personal offence. He scorns his mother for not mourning her first husband to Hamlet's standards. Hamlet also very openly tells his mother that she has downgraded from his father to Claudius. “Look here upon this picture… This was your husband. Look you now what follows here is your husband...” (Act 3, Scene 4, Lines 62-73) Hamlet is actively attempting to guilt his mother about her marriage to Claudius. This is greatly caused by his own insecurity and anger over his father's death. There is nothing to suggest that Gertrude has any knowledge of the murder and Hamlet is taking much of his frustration of it out on her, reacting very dramatically. (need relating