Hamlet's Indecisiveness

audience to see it through Hamlet’s “grainy Pixelvision” camera, further cementing the technological focus of his adaptation. Hamlet’s soliloquies tend to be presented through the lens of his video camera or in voiceover as he toys with his video camera (i.e. Hamlet’s “Frailty thy name is woman” soliloquy, which is presented in voiceover as Hamlet watches footage of his mother, father, and Ophelia on his television and camera screens.) This method helps the audience visualize Hamlet’s torment as…

his mother, and does not realize that he was the cause of her insanity. Regardless of his many faults, he is looked upon kindly with his faults being overshadowed by his positive qualities. How could somebody with as many negative qualities like indecisiveness, hastiness, hate, ferocity, and obsession be perceived as a hero for his…

studied and reproduced today. Hamlet remains one of Shakespeare’s greatest and well-known tragedies. The eponymous character is a prime Shakespearean exemplary of the struggle of dealing with intricate emotions. Prince Hamlet’s renowned procrastination, Through a dominant reading of Hamlet’s last soliloquy in Act 4, Scene 4, lines 31-66, I will demonstrate that a recontextualisation of Hamlet in…

The Trials that Plague the Soul Misery loves company. This statement proves true when comparing the acclaimed works Yann Martel's Life of Pi, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and William Shakespeare's Hamlet, as all these classics contain the crucial element despair. Characters in the aforementioned novels and play, battle with deep despair and must sacrifice to survive in a world without loved ones to guide them. The characters are not the cause of their anguish, though it is the…

killed him. The play, Hamlet, was written by William Shakespeare, and it was first published in 1603. In the play, Hamlet was a young prince whose father died. Most would figure that, that was the cause of his grief. However, it was only a part of Hamlet’s distress. The other part was the grief he suffered from his mother marrying two months after his father’s death to his uncle. Throughout the play, Hamlet…

his mind after interacting with “the ghost” go on to show the influence that people close to us can have on our thoughts and actions. The personality of the protagonist and all the diverse factors that come into play to further his indecisiveness only increase Hamlet’s state of melancholy. It is imperative to note that Hamlet remains passive and hesitant to commit suicide as well as to kill Claudius during prayer, until the ghost of his father influences…

archetypes like the tragic hero, the villain, the suppliant, and the foil in order to create characters that are familiar while also building upon them in new ways. As evidenced by the title, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Hamlet is the hero of this tragedy. Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, has recently been murdered as the play opens. When the ghost of King Hamlet tells Hamlet to “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (I.v.31), Hamlet spends the rest of the play debating whether or not to…

revengeful, tragedy play; Hamlet, the protagonist is known generally and agreed upon to be William Shakespeare’s most fascinating tragic hero. “Hamlet” is about a prince who tries to avenge his father 's murder, but in the end, his madness and indecisiveness takes its toll on everyone involved. In “Hamlet”, Shakespeare gives us a character driven by his emotions, which cause him to create such relationships with the other characters, bringing out Hamlet, as well as to help us understand his…

Main Points): • Hamlet struggles with his determination to avenge his father causing him to suffer emotionally. His inability to act on anything leads to tragic death of many lives including his own. • Similar to Hamlet, Prufrock suffers from an indecisiveness to act or speak that pushes him apart…

his fatal collapse. The tragic flaws displayed by these three characters in Hamlet cause their subsequent downfall. Hamlet’s goal throughout the play is to seek revenge, but his flaws create an atmosphere of doubt. He procrastinates to enact vengeance on his uncle, Claudius, with him saying, “How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge!” (4.4. 31-32). Hamlet’s procrastination is evident because he desires vengeance on his uncle near the beginning of the play, yet does not…