William Shakespeare’s tragedy plays fascinate readers by highlighting characters’ flaws that lead them to their downfall even today. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare demonstration of the characters’ flaws makes individuals victims of their own.
According to Aristotle, “Men were full of self-control and were, therefore, responsible for their own actions. It was the tragic heroes’ own actions, then, that brought about the chaos and tragic events” (“Aristotle’s Poetics”). In Shakespeare tragic play Hamlet, the characters’ flaws of Hamlet, Ophelia, and Claudius makes them victims of their flaw. Hamlet lacks the ability to take action towards his goal, whereas Ophelia has neither free will nor voice and follows men like Polonius, while …show more content…
His action to the conflict around and inside of him shows how the complicated and true the character is. His mind is preoccupied with different situations coming up one by one; his first situation is his father’s death, the second situation is his mother re -marriage to his uncle, and third and most important is the contact with his father’s spirit. Shakespeare illustrates how Hamlet struggles along the path of achieving his goal. Shakespeare explains Hamlet’s internal conflict through this line: “Or to take arms against a sea of troubles”. Hamlet struggles to punish his father killer knowing his weakness to put his plan into action. His anger is fueled by the actions of the women around him, these actions lead Hamlet to the point of their virtue, as he insults women. Therefore, Hamlet’ internal conflict makes him a victim of his …show more content…
She listens and follows her father’s decision and she says to her father, “I shall obey, my lord” (1, 3, 136).The families restrict the women 's’ actions, attitude, emotions and thought because of the patriarchal society prevalent then. From the bible, the protestant leader John Knox says that “Women in her great perfection [are created] to obey men” ("Elizabethan Women”). Shakespeare uses this concept in most play to illustrate the women roles during this period. After Polonius’ death, Ophelia loses sanity and she sings, “He is dead and gone, lady, / He is dead and gone, /At his head a grass-green turf, /At his heels a stone. Oh, ho!”(4.5,25-30).Ophelia is surrounded by three men in the play who all disappear at once. Hence, after the death of her father, she breaks her silence by singing obscene songs that represent female madness. Her flaw creates her madness by her father’s death, Hamlet’s betrayal, and his misbehavior. Shakespeare also uses many literary devices within the poem to explain Ophelia’s madness and demise. He uses repetition, symbolism, and imagery in the poem. Ophelia uses the symbolism of the floral bouquet to represent ideas between love, betrayal, regret, and loss. The phrase “He is dead and gone” is repeated twice where she talks about her father’s death while grieving. The phrase “grass-green turf” and “a stone” illustrates her father’s tombstone. These phrases explain that she is losing
According to Aristotle, “Men were full of self-control and were, therefore, responsible for their own actions. It was the tragic heroes’ own actions, then, that brought about the chaos and tragic events” (“Aristotle’s Poetics”). In Shakespeare tragic play Hamlet, the characters’ flaws of Hamlet, Ophelia, and Claudius makes them victims of their flaw. Hamlet lacks the ability to take action towards his goal, whereas Ophelia has neither free will nor voice and follows men like Polonius, while …show more content…
His action to the conflict around and inside of him shows how the complicated and true the character is. His mind is preoccupied with different situations coming up one by one; his first situation is his father’s death, the second situation is his mother re -marriage to his uncle, and third and most important is the contact with his father’s spirit. Shakespeare illustrates how Hamlet struggles along the path of achieving his goal. Shakespeare explains Hamlet’s internal conflict through this line: “Or to take arms against a sea of troubles”. Hamlet struggles to punish his father killer knowing his weakness to put his plan into action. His anger is fueled by the actions of the women around him, these actions lead Hamlet to the point of their virtue, as he insults women. Therefore, Hamlet’ internal conflict makes him a victim of his …show more content…
She listens and follows her father’s decision and she says to her father, “I shall obey, my lord” (1, 3, 136).The families restrict the women 's’ actions, attitude, emotions and thought because of the patriarchal society prevalent then. From the bible, the protestant leader John Knox says that “Women in her great perfection [are created] to obey men” ("Elizabethan Women”). Shakespeare uses this concept in most play to illustrate the women roles during this period. After Polonius’ death, Ophelia loses sanity and she sings, “He is dead and gone, lady, / He is dead and gone, /At his head a grass-green turf, /At his heels a stone. Oh, ho!”(4.5,25-30).Ophelia is surrounded by three men in the play who all disappear at once. Hence, after the death of her father, she breaks her silence by singing obscene songs that represent female madness. Her flaw creates her madness by her father’s death, Hamlet’s betrayal, and his misbehavior. Shakespeare also uses many literary devices within the poem to explain Ophelia’s madness and demise. He uses repetition, symbolism, and imagery in the poem. Ophelia uses the symbolism of the floral bouquet to represent ideas between love, betrayal, regret, and loss. The phrase “He is dead and gone” is repeated twice where she talks about her father’s death while grieving. The phrase “grass-green turf” and “a stone” illustrates her father’s tombstone. These phrases explain that she is losing