With all of its meaningful and tragic deaths, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, slowly but surely not only deteriorates the city of Denmark but also sets free the once poisoned and corrupted city. As Shakespeare closes the play the audience is reassured, even through death, that “life is...indestructibly powerful and pleasurable” as said by Friedrich Nietzsche, who helps connect the ending of Hamlet by bringing his philosophical ideology to prove such a statement. With that of the mind of Shakespeare, even though several characters have died by the end of the play, the deaths themselves bring out new fortune and new life by symbolic in their own way as they leave the city of Denmark. Claudius, being the main antagonist of the play, sets the
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The first death would be that of Gertrude. Gertrude began as an innocent piece in the story of Hamlet’s once decent life, but once his father died Hamlet began looking at her as “frailty” and questioned her emotions, saying “ Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married- O most wicked speed!”( Act III,ii,153). Believing his mother would not have cried if she did not love the original King Hamlet, but because she did cry he believed that within that first month of grief that she would stay that way for some time, but in reality she did not, thus why he calls her tears “unrighteous” because even his own mother has fallen into the corrupt city of Denmark by marrying Claudius. Now that she is in that state her death becomes much more important as she starts listening to Claudius a bit more often and begins believing that Hamlet is indeed crazy. Once fully engulfed in this state she becomes fully unaware of the plot taking place by Claudius and as her innocence comes back when she drinks from the poison cup it is let go forever and releases that innocence back onto Denmark, in a sense restoring it to its natural place. She lets everyone in the room know that Claudius is the villain screaming “ O villainy! Ho! Let the door be lock’d. Treachery! Seek it out.” and they obey letting hamlet avenge not only his father, mother, and Ophelia, but Denmark itself. Although innocence was lost life was reassured that that innocence could come
The first death would be that of Gertrude. Gertrude began as an innocent piece in the story of Hamlet’s once decent life, but once his father died Hamlet began looking at her as “frailty” and questioned her emotions, saying “ Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married- O most wicked speed!”( Act III,ii,153). Believing his mother would not have cried if she did not love the original King Hamlet, but because she did cry he believed that within that first month of grief that she would stay that way for some time, but in reality she did not, thus why he calls her tears “unrighteous” because even his own mother has fallen into the corrupt city of Denmark by marrying Claudius. Now that she is in that state her death becomes much more important as she starts listening to Claudius a bit more often and begins believing that Hamlet is indeed crazy. Once fully engulfed in this state she becomes fully unaware of the plot taking place by Claudius and as her innocence comes back when she drinks from the poison cup it is let go forever and releases that innocence back onto Denmark, in a sense restoring it to its natural place. She lets everyone in the room know that Claudius is the villain screaming “ O villainy! Ho! Let the door be lock’d. Treachery! Seek it out.” and they obey letting hamlet avenge not only his father, mother, and Ophelia, but Denmark itself. Although innocence was lost life was reassured that that innocence could come