Gertrude Stein

The women in Hamlet are portrayed as weak, but are crucially important in the plot of the play. Ophelia and Gertrude both have a strong influence on the men’s actions and are used to shape Hamlet’s personality. We learn how Hamlet reacts when in love and how he acts towards his family. Although they are important characters, Shakespeare still displays them as frail, powerless and manipulated by the men around them. Hamlet often uses misogyny throughout the play and makes his negative feelings…

Within the Everlasting times of Human history a person or people have been subject to conformity. This conformity shapes us into people trying to please others by expectations put on us, and our roles in society, which will lead to our eventual demise. The Play Hamlet by William Shakespeare has a character named Ophelia that is torn between her love for Hamlet and the desire to please her father, Polonius. This contradiction evidently leads to her insanity and eventual death, which demonstrates…

Since the audience is paying more attention to Hamlet himself, a deeper concern emerges from Hamlet’s self-criticism. The audience has already been made aware of the fact the Hamlet’s life does not revolve around power, politics, or money. Therefore, Hamlet begins debating the meaning of life itself. Although Hamlet remains suicidal throughout the entire play, his main problem evolves into the failing relationships surrounding him. His existentialist view portrays that to live a life of purpose…

William Shakespeare once wrote “All the World’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” Although those words were written for a comedy “As You Like It” it is still holds meaning in relation to Hamlet. Hamlet is about power, intrigue, some romance, and grief. It shows the strength and folly of the human spirt. As Hamlet is a play, it is meant to be seen. While there is much benefit that can be derived from reading a Shakespearian play, nothing compares to watching it performed. A…

“Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder” (I, V, 28) says the Ghost in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. With these words, Hamlet is given a mission from the Ghost to seek revenge for both the Ghost and himself for the death of his father. However, Hamlet “is assailed by self-doubt and self-blame” (Keyishian) and struggles with the morality of what has been commanded of him. Hamlet’s conscience knows that the revenge the Ghost has entrusted to him is immoral; despite knowing this, he carries out…

Man will always have an innate desire to have what isn’t his. Discontent is a hopeless side effect to human nature, and unfortunately all men deal with it hundreds of instances within a lifetime. What people don’t realize, though, is they are given what they have for a reason. The creator of the universe purposely places things, people, and circumstances in everyone’s life when it is appropriate. When men chase after their own desires, it often results in some sort of consequence. This, the…

public eye because he is harsh with his words and does not hold the position for King. While the other characters in the play preoccupy themselves with revenge, justice, and moral dignity, Claudius is completely immersed into maintaining power over Gertrude, Denmark and just about anything else that threatens his safety, namely his stepson, Hamlet. The reason Claudius speaks to the public well is because he is extremely authoritative and holds free reign over Hamlet, playing him like an…

Hamlet is a very unique mind. He has a deep love for literature. He has an extreme intelligence and cunningness; he knew when people were not being completely honest or were trying to play him for a fool. Hamlet is full of intelligence. Hamlet spirals from a man who uses logic and his sense to a beast who uses only raw emotion. Hamlet is a unique man because of his use of intelligence and all that he goes through in the play. Hamlet has a passion for reading. From the evidence given in…

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…

Gertrude learned that she was able to state her own opinion and make her own decisions. Ophelia learned that without the continued guidance and opinion of her father and brother, she no longer had a purpose for life. Both of these women lived in the same…