Revenge And Bad Habits In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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The play “Hamlet” is characterized by many themes. They include revenge, mystery, murder, tragedy, etc. Most articles about the play deal with revenge of Hamlet towards Claudius and others give an overview of the characters in the play. Articles having to do with the revenge include, “Hamlet’s Ordeal” by Maria Mendes and “Once Again on Hamlet’s Procrastination” by A.S. Topchyan. Articles that describe the characters in the play are “The Customary and the Ethics: Understanding Hamlet’s Bad Habits” by Michael D. Bristol and “Mirror’s: Shakespeare’s Use of Mythology in Hamlet” by Cayla McCollum. Each of these author have a different way of viewing and describing Shakespeare’s play, “Hamlet”. An important theme in the play, as it seems is revenge. In her article, Maria Mendes tries to explain in what ways Hamlet was trying to figure out if Claudius had really killed his father as the Ghost suggested. She states, “the Prince of Denmark seeks a solution to end suspicions about the presumed murder of his …show more content…
Bristol’s article, he talks about what he thinks the black suit that Hamlet wears represents and the bad habits in the play. He suggests that the suit is a bad habit and describes it as customary. It is customary because it is the color of mourning and of melancholy. Melancholy seems to appear in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Hamlet seems to be a very poorly dressed person. Here, the author uses an anecdote to compare it to Hamlet’s bad habits. He says that his son’s ripped jeans are like Hamlet’s black suit. By using the anecdote he can relate to the play. Bristol doesn’t like the character of Hamlet, because of his bad habits. Bristol takes lines from the play having to do with custom and examines them carefully. The customs which he describes according to him, “recognize that accomplishing dharma is not the same thing as mass conformity” (74). This article focuses mainly on the character of Hamlet and his customs which come about from his black

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