William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most iconic tragedies in the English language. The story centers on prince Hamlet whose world changes around him from his mother’s infidelity towards her husband King Hamlet and the discovery that the King’s Brother Claudius killed his father. As the story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, points out many issues, like incest, political livelihood, revenge, and mortality, the most important issue is Hamlet’s madness that causes his own downfall. When Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and plans to show the everyone that Claudius is his father’s killer in Act I. Hamlet begins to act differently to fool others into thinking he is harmless as he tries to find evidence that Claudius is King Hamlets’ murderer.
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Hamlet’s acting has become so realistic that it questioned if he is acting or if he has become mad. His acting has begun to spread through the ears of the one close to him and had caused others to begin worrying about him or in Polonius mind think that Hamlet really is in love with Ophelia. This gives Hamlet the idea to get the theater group act out King Hamlet’s death to get a reaction from Claudius. Soon after, Ophelia waits for Hamlet to see if he really mad over love. Hamlet’s reaction brings false to Polonius’s theory that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia, because Hamlet begins to get angry and starts yelling at Ophelia by telling her “Go thy ways to nunnery” (III.i.126), because he believes she is not telling the true. Hamlet’s pent-up anger towards his mother because of her infidelity. Hamlets takes this anger out on Ophelia because the women around him have been untrustworthy and have betrayed him. He tells Ophelia to go become a nunnery because nuns cannot marry and cannot be influenced by any men given them a chance to be faithful so she cannot cause any more damage. This has shown signs of Hamlets acting to become real and make other believe he really has lost grip of …show more content…
He expresses this by telling her the good things about his father that Claudius does not have. Hamlet treats his mother with the most disrespect and forces his mother to never sleep with Claudius again. Hamlet forces is anger on his mother by pushing her down making her see what she is and the horrible act she did by marrying a man like Claudius. As their argument continues Hamlet discovers a spy listening to them. Hamlet in rage believes it is Claudius and takes his sword and stabs it through the arras. Coming behind the arras Polonius cry, “O, I am slain” (III.iv.24)! Hamlet has killed Polonius because of his obsession to kill Claudius has caused him to kill Polonius. Soon after the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to yell at Hamlet “Do not forget: this visitation/ Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose” (III.iv.110-111). Hamlet looks at his mother telling her what she has to say now with his father standing in front of her. Hamlets mother in fear questions him on who is he talking to because no one is there. This shows another sign of Hamlets emotion of anger and obsession that he truly believes that his father really is there even though his mother cannot see
Hamlet’s acting has become so realistic that it questioned if he is acting or if he has become mad. His acting has begun to spread through the ears of the one close to him and had caused others to begin worrying about him or in Polonius mind think that Hamlet really is in love with Ophelia. This gives Hamlet the idea to get the theater group act out King Hamlet’s death to get a reaction from Claudius. Soon after, Ophelia waits for Hamlet to see if he really mad over love. Hamlet’s reaction brings false to Polonius’s theory that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia, because Hamlet begins to get angry and starts yelling at Ophelia by telling her “Go thy ways to nunnery” (III.i.126), because he believes she is not telling the true. Hamlet’s pent-up anger towards his mother because of her infidelity. Hamlets takes this anger out on Ophelia because the women around him have been untrustworthy and have betrayed him. He tells Ophelia to go become a nunnery because nuns cannot marry and cannot be influenced by any men given them a chance to be faithful so she cannot cause any more damage. This has shown signs of Hamlets acting to become real and make other believe he really has lost grip of …show more content…
He expresses this by telling her the good things about his father that Claudius does not have. Hamlet treats his mother with the most disrespect and forces his mother to never sleep with Claudius again. Hamlet forces is anger on his mother by pushing her down making her see what she is and the horrible act she did by marrying a man like Claudius. As their argument continues Hamlet discovers a spy listening to them. Hamlet in rage believes it is Claudius and takes his sword and stabs it through the arras. Coming behind the arras Polonius cry, “O, I am slain” (III.iv.24)! Hamlet has killed Polonius because of his obsession to kill Claudius has caused him to kill Polonius. Soon after the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to yell at Hamlet “Do not forget: this visitation/ Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose” (III.iv.110-111). Hamlet looks at his mother telling her what she has to say now with his father standing in front of her. Hamlets mother in fear questions him on who is he talking to because no one is there. This shows another sign of Hamlets emotion of anger and obsession that he truly believes that his father really is there even though his mother cannot see