Power Of Thought In Hamlet

All animals know how to live, eat, kill, but what sets humans apart is god’s gift of thought. A human’s life is structured through thought for the actions they initiate are influenced by their thoughts. The thought system can trigger an inaction or action of a situation. Throughout the Shakespearean Tragedy Hamlet, the protagonist Hamlet demonstrates his thought process where he is sometimes in conflict with carrying out initiatives. Hamlet is trapped in a situation where he must determine how he should avenge his father’s death. The avenging of a father’s death was a common theme throughout the tragedy and characters such as Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras embodies this. Three of the characters face the same situation, but approach it several …show more content…
The tragedy begins with the discovery of King Hamlet’s death, Hamlet’s father, from natural causes. When someone does not die from natural causes, then their ghost comes back to haunt. Hamlet encounters his father’s ghost and is told that King Hamlet was killed by Claudius, his brother. Hamlet vows to avenge for his father and kill Claudius. While trying to avenge his father, Hamlet goes through a series of conflicts with himself and inaction over action. Hamlet thinks over what he should do, make sure if his father’s ghost said the truth. He took every single motive step by step. He made sure he put a lot of thought to everything, tried to push away his anger from striving him to commit action and go straight for the kill. Shakespeare lets the reader know that Hamlet is aware “What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time, be but to sleep and feed?” in his soliloquy after he speaks with the captain that claims he is trying to take over pointless land. The significance of this is that he is basically restating that everyone should use their power of thought to take action, Shakespeare’s emphasis is clearly demonstrated here. Hamlet knowing how a human should live, also understands the strength of anger. He states “How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge!” and “Though inclination be as sharp as will”. The wording of his speech plays a major role in the author’s message. The word “sharp” explains the pain, the drive, that makes him want to take action, kind of like the withdrawal symptoms of a drug forcing one to take it. The anger and all the many different events fuel him to strike Claudius down because he is feeling pain when he is not doing it. This is a tragic flaw during this play because Hamlet is not strong enough to face this pain, this inclination. When Hamlet is in the King and Queen’s room with his