The complexity behind Hamlet’s consciousness serves as an insightful reflection into the reasoning of his motives throughout the play. There are many questions that are left unanswered that would reveal more about his character which George Detmold in his critique “Hamlet’s ‘All but blunted purpose’”observes and attempts to respond to. The most pressing inquiry regarding Hamlet is his purpose for delaying his actions despite his strongly fueled motives. It is evident that what Detmold has to say about the reasoning for Hamlet's delay in overall action general regarding his motives and temptations is true to a underlying meaning.
Detmold addresses the idea that Hamlet might not have ever been originally insane as portrayed in the play. He rather approaches Hamlet as a troubled human who he identifies as a tragic hero. The 3 main traits that create a tragic hero are defined by Detmold as having intense will power, high amounts of feeling and emotion, and having “an …show more content…
These characteristics are demonstrated through Hamlet as he says he has the “cause, and will, and strength, and means to do’t” (Act 4, Scene 4, 48-49). This would be an instance where his motives come from an an unharnessed energy of his own will power pointing out his tragic flaw. Therefore his hesitation to murder isn’t so much cloaked by his sanity, but by his confusion for his purpose in committing all of his sins in the first place.
There is clarity that before any of the tragedy began, Hamlet was focused on what Detmold called “moral beauty” in which no matter of a situation called for unethical standards. However, as the tragic hero finds out, there is no purity of any sort, but quite the contrary. This ignorance is part of what drives him towards his gruesome demise, regardless of whatever path of action he decides to take. As Detmold points out, “We never see Hamlet striving for or possessing his good.” Furthermore, Hamlet is portrayed as being quite pessimistic throughout
Detmold addresses the idea that Hamlet might not have ever been originally insane as portrayed in the play. He rather approaches Hamlet as a troubled human who he identifies as a tragic hero. The 3 main traits that create a tragic hero are defined by Detmold as having intense will power, high amounts of feeling and emotion, and having “an …show more content…
These characteristics are demonstrated through Hamlet as he says he has the “cause, and will, and strength, and means to do’t” (Act 4, Scene 4, 48-49). This would be an instance where his motives come from an an unharnessed energy of his own will power pointing out his tragic flaw. Therefore his hesitation to murder isn’t so much cloaked by his sanity, but by his confusion for his purpose in committing all of his sins in the first place.
There is clarity that before any of the tragedy began, Hamlet was focused on what Detmold called “moral beauty” in which no matter of a situation called for unethical standards. However, as the tragic hero finds out, there is no purity of any sort, but quite the contrary. This ignorance is part of what drives him towards his gruesome demise, regardless of whatever path of action he decides to take. As Detmold points out, “We never see Hamlet striving for or possessing his good.” Furthermore, Hamlet is portrayed as being quite pessimistic throughout