The Poor Danish Prince
An Observation of the Hamlet Character Deserving of the Most Pity Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most tragic stories in history. It’s a play where in the end, everyone is dead. There are many things that go wrong for many people in this play. But which character is deserving of the most pity? Tragedy befalls every character. Guilt plagues the minds of the majority. But nonetheless, there is one character who’s certain exploits draw sympathy from everyone who reads the great piece of literature that is Hamlet. In the play Hamlet, the character deserving of the most pity is none other than Hamlet himself. First off, his father died and his mother married is uncle within a matter of months. This is terribly hard on poor Hamlet. He lost his father, a man he deeply loved and admired which is terrible in itself. To add insult to injury she marries a man that is his father’s brother, and of whom he thinks very little. This puts poor Hamlet in an awful state of mind. His Step-Father Claudius says in Act 1 Scene 2 Line 67, “How is it that …show more content…
Hamlet was told by the ghost of his father about the murder. In Act One Scene 5, Lines 64-68, “Brief let me be. Sleeping in my orchard, my custom always of the afternoon, upon my secure hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, and in the porches of my ear did pour the leprous distilment,” So now Hamlet knows what and how his father was killed and by who. But being as though he was told by a ghost, no one would believe him. So Hamlet is stuck between a rock and a hard place. As said by Shakespeare in the classic play Othello in Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 152-155, “Though I do hate him as I do hell's pains yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign” He must avenge his father, yet he cannot kill the king without justifying the murder
An Observation of the Hamlet Character Deserving of the Most Pity Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most tragic stories in history. It’s a play where in the end, everyone is dead. There are many things that go wrong for many people in this play. But which character is deserving of the most pity? Tragedy befalls every character. Guilt plagues the minds of the majority. But nonetheless, there is one character who’s certain exploits draw sympathy from everyone who reads the great piece of literature that is Hamlet. In the play Hamlet, the character deserving of the most pity is none other than Hamlet himself. First off, his father died and his mother married is uncle within a matter of months. This is terribly hard on poor Hamlet. He lost his father, a man he deeply loved and admired which is terrible in itself. To add insult to injury she marries a man that is his father’s brother, and of whom he thinks very little. This puts poor Hamlet in an awful state of mind. His Step-Father Claudius says in Act 1 Scene 2 Line 67, “How is it that …show more content…
Hamlet was told by the ghost of his father about the murder. In Act One Scene 5, Lines 64-68, “Brief let me be. Sleeping in my orchard, my custom always of the afternoon, upon my secure hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, and in the porches of my ear did pour the leprous distilment,” So now Hamlet knows what and how his father was killed and by who. But being as though he was told by a ghost, no one would believe him. So Hamlet is stuck between a rock and a hard place. As said by Shakespeare in the classic play Othello in Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 152-155, “Though I do hate him as I do hell's pains yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign” He must avenge his father, yet he cannot kill the king without justifying the murder