Hamlet’s Revenge
The story of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is a dramatic tragedy, in which there is a tragic hero that has a character flaw that affects the rest of the characters in a negative way. Tragic hero, an admirable person who has a character flaw that usually ends in suffering for everyone. To start, King Hamlet dies, and then Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, marries Claudius, her brother in law. The ghost of dead king Hamlet appears and informs Prince Hamlet that Claudius, his brother, killed him, hamlet then plots his revenge against Claudius. There are many songs that summarize the story of Hamlet, but three in particular by Garbage, Paul McCartney, and MC LARS, summarize the feelings and character development that Hamlet showed throughout the story. The first song that relates to the story of Hamlet is ‘ Only Happy When it Rains’ because it shows that if you’re so depressed then depressing things may make you happy. One example of this is in the song and the lyrics say, ‘You wanna hear about my new obsession? I'm riding high upon a deep depression I'm only happy when it rains’. This relates to Hamlet because he was so depressed about his father that when …show more content…
This song is about a man loving a woman and saying you can never love someone too much. Hamlet loved Ophelia and the lyrics in the song explain the same kind of love hamlet showed Ophelia. The lyrics go, ‘But I Look around Me and I See It Isn’t So. Some People Wanna Fill The World With Silly Love Songs. And What's Wrong With That?’. This relates to hamlet because he loved Ophelia very much and the lyrics explain how there is never too much love in the world. There is another connection between hamlet and this song and it has to do with the way hamlet forgot about his love for Ophelia. The lyrics also say that sometimes love isn’t forever and that is what happened with hamlet and
The story of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is a dramatic tragedy, in which there is a tragic hero that has a character flaw that affects the rest of the characters in a negative way. Tragic hero, an admirable person who has a character flaw that usually ends in suffering for everyone. To start, King Hamlet dies, and then Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, marries Claudius, her brother in law. The ghost of dead king Hamlet appears and informs Prince Hamlet that Claudius, his brother, killed him, hamlet then plots his revenge against Claudius. There are many songs that summarize the story of Hamlet, but three in particular by Garbage, Paul McCartney, and MC LARS, summarize the feelings and character development that Hamlet showed throughout the story. The first song that relates to the story of Hamlet is ‘ Only Happy When it Rains’ because it shows that if you’re so depressed then depressing things may make you happy. One example of this is in the song and the lyrics say, ‘You wanna hear about my new obsession? I'm riding high upon a deep depression I'm only happy when it rains’. This relates to Hamlet because he was so depressed about his father that when …show more content…
This song is about a man loving a woman and saying you can never love someone too much. Hamlet loved Ophelia and the lyrics in the song explain the same kind of love hamlet showed Ophelia. The lyrics go, ‘But I Look around Me and I See It Isn’t So. Some People Wanna Fill The World With Silly Love Songs. And What's Wrong With That?’. This relates to hamlet because he loved Ophelia very much and the lyrics explain how there is never too much love in the world. There is another connection between hamlet and this song and it has to do with the way hamlet forgot about his love for Ophelia. The lyrics also say that sometimes love isn’t forever and that is what happened with hamlet and