“Am I a Coward?”
Do you ever feel like there's something you should be doing but keep making excuses not to? That is exactly how Hamlet felt when he was told to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle. Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet, in which Hamlet faces many challenges which started with the loss of his father. Hamlet’s recent past has affected the way he sees the world, in many of his plays Shakespeare uses soliloquies to communicate to the audience how the characters are feeling.
By this point in the play Hamlet has seen his father’s Ghost, who told him that Claudius murdered his father then quickly married his mother, and the ghost demands that his death be avenged. Claudius and Gertrude sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet, but he quickly figures it out and the players come into town while the old friends are talking to Hamlet. One of the Players performs part of a play and begins to cry over the woman in the story whom he did not …show more content…
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”(50). While Hamlet feels bad for not taking action yet he wants to make sure that Claudius did in fact kill his father, so he makes a plan to have the players perform the “Murder of Gonzago”(48). Hamlet is not sure if the ghost is in fact his father or a demon sent from Satan to trick him; he will use the play to find out his uncle’s guilt. “I'll observe his looks. I'll tent him to the quick. If he do blench, I know my course…. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.”(50).
Shakespeare has a very unique way with words. The things he wrote are still relevant today, that’s why when we read his plays we can relate to the characters in some way or another. In this passage of the play Hamlet we gain an understanding of how Hamlet feels about everything from the actor, to his uncle, and ultimately himself, neither of which at this point in the play is very
Do you ever feel like there's something you should be doing but keep making excuses not to? That is exactly how Hamlet felt when he was told to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle. Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet, in which Hamlet faces many challenges which started with the loss of his father. Hamlet’s recent past has affected the way he sees the world, in many of his plays Shakespeare uses soliloquies to communicate to the audience how the characters are feeling.
By this point in the play Hamlet has seen his father’s Ghost, who told him that Claudius murdered his father then quickly married his mother, and the ghost demands that his death be avenged. Claudius and Gertrude sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet, but he quickly figures it out and the players come into town while the old friends are talking to Hamlet. One of the Players performs part of a play and begins to cry over the woman in the story whom he did not …show more content…
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”(50). While Hamlet feels bad for not taking action yet he wants to make sure that Claudius did in fact kill his father, so he makes a plan to have the players perform the “Murder of Gonzago”(48). Hamlet is not sure if the ghost is in fact his father or a demon sent from Satan to trick him; he will use the play to find out his uncle’s guilt. “I'll observe his looks. I'll tent him to the quick. If he do blench, I know my course…. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.”(50).
Shakespeare has a very unique way with words. The things he wrote are still relevant today, that’s why when we read his plays we can relate to the characters in some way or another. In this passage of the play Hamlet we gain an understanding of how Hamlet feels about everything from the actor, to his uncle, and ultimately himself, neither of which at this point in the play is very