Imagine you come home from college and your father is dead and your mother has married your father's brother. Would you be on the verge of insanity? Would suicide be an option? Throughout Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, The characters discover a sense of excitement and suspense. New discoveries lead to new awakenings and a constant change in consciousness.
Shakespeare goes back and forth on the topics of death, love, and revenge. Hamlet is having a difficult time choosing between life or death, not only for himself, but for others as well.
Discoveries such as finding out his father's ghost has appeared and new awakenings such as realizing he needs to murder to succeed in honoring his father, are points that are expanded upon throughout the play, …show more content…
But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two...So excellent a king, that was to this/Hyperion to a satyr.” (1.2.129-41) It is clearly difficult
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for him to accept the situation and move on. Life has gotten to be a struggle for him in more ways than just his mother marrying his uncle, his father just died less than two months ago and this leads Hamlet to believe his mother never loved his father. The tension between Claudius,
Gertrude, and Hamlet rise from scene to scene. Hamlet then discovers that the ghost of his father has appeared before the guards in which he is excited and wants to speak with him at once. “My
Lord, I think I saw him yesternight./ Saw? Who?/ My Lord, the King, your father./ The King my father?... for God’s love let me hear it!” (1.2.189-95) His friend, Horatio proceeds to tell him where to go to speak with him and hamlet follows with telling Horatio not to speak about it to anyone. Hamlet proceeds to tell Horatio he doesn't value his life one bit and he will do whatever it is the ghost needs him to do. “ Why, what should be the fear?/ I do not set my life in a pin’s fee.” (1.4.64-5) The ghost then sends Hamlet on a mission, one Hamlet struggles with …show more content…
Then a preparation for Ophelia's burial set up and the funeral begins. Laertes, the brother of Ophelia, and Hamlet begin to argue about who loves
Ophelia more. “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not with all their quantity of love/Make up my sum./What wilt thou do for her?”(5.1.247-9) Tension between the two begin to accelerate as the King and Queen try to intervene and discuss the source of the tension. Hamlet goes on about how Laertes would do absolutely nothing for her but he would much more than
Laertes ever could. “'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do./Woo’t weep? Woo’t fight? Woo’t fast?/Woo’t tear thyself?/Woo’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?/I’ll do ’t.” (5.1.252-6) The queen believes their points are invalid and Hamlet exits on a calm note.
Laertes and Claudius meet and discuss a plan to kill Hamlet. Laertes decides to poison his sword before they fight so even the slightest scratch will cause him to die. “I will do ’t./And for that purpose I’ll anoint my sword./I bought an unction of a mountebank,/So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,/Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,/Collected from all simples that have virtue/Under the moon, can save the thing from death/That is but scratched withal.”
Shakespeare goes back and forth on the topics of death, love, and revenge. Hamlet is having a difficult time choosing between life or death, not only for himself, but for others as well.
Discoveries such as finding out his father's ghost has appeared and new awakenings such as realizing he needs to murder to succeed in honoring his father, are points that are expanded upon throughout the play, …show more content…
But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two...So excellent a king, that was to this/Hyperion to a satyr.” (1.2.129-41) It is clearly difficult
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for him to accept the situation and move on. Life has gotten to be a struggle for him in more ways than just his mother marrying his uncle, his father just died less than two months ago and this leads Hamlet to believe his mother never loved his father. The tension between Claudius,
Gertrude, and Hamlet rise from scene to scene. Hamlet then discovers that the ghost of his father has appeared before the guards in which he is excited and wants to speak with him at once. “My
Lord, I think I saw him yesternight./ Saw? Who?/ My Lord, the King, your father./ The King my father?... for God’s love let me hear it!” (1.2.189-95) His friend, Horatio proceeds to tell him where to go to speak with him and hamlet follows with telling Horatio not to speak about it to anyone. Hamlet proceeds to tell Horatio he doesn't value his life one bit and he will do whatever it is the ghost needs him to do. “ Why, what should be the fear?/ I do not set my life in a pin’s fee.” (1.4.64-5) The ghost then sends Hamlet on a mission, one Hamlet struggles with …show more content…
Then a preparation for Ophelia's burial set up and the funeral begins. Laertes, the brother of Ophelia, and Hamlet begin to argue about who loves
Ophelia more. “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not with all their quantity of love/Make up my sum./What wilt thou do for her?”(5.1.247-9) Tension between the two begin to accelerate as the King and Queen try to intervene and discuss the source of the tension. Hamlet goes on about how Laertes would do absolutely nothing for her but he would much more than
Laertes ever could. “'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do./Woo’t weep? Woo’t fight? Woo’t fast?/Woo’t tear thyself?/Woo’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?/I’ll do ’t.” (5.1.252-6) The queen believes their points are invalid and Hamlet exits on a calm note.
Laertes and Claudius meet and discuss a plan to kill Hamlet. Laertes decides to poison his sword before they fight so even the slightest scratch will cause him to die. “I will do ’t./And for that purpose I’ll anoint my sword./I bought an unction of a mountebank,/So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,/Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,/Collected from all simples that have virtue/Under the moon, can save the thing from death/That is but scratched withal.”