Hamlet's Indecisiveness

Hamlet Essay The ending of Hamlet is one of the most well known throughout literature. The play ends with Hamlet’s mother Gertrude, being poisoned and dying. Following her death Hamlet kills his uncle and Laertes with whom he was dueling. At the same time Laertes runs Hamlet through with a poison sword and causes him to die. Right before Hamlet’s death he hears that Fortinbras has come into the castle and with his dying words says that Fortinbras should take over as the king of Denmark. When…

allows the audience to question Hamlet’s actions and motives by using different foil characters to compare his actions to. Claudius, Laertes and Fortinbras are all foil characters for Hamlet, however it is Fortinbras that Hamlet is able to best connect to and therefore the best for the audience to draw comparisons to. By highlighting the comparisons and contrasts of both characters, I shall show that through creating Fortinbras Shakespeare was about to elaborate upon Hamlet’s shortcomings as a…

So Hamlet's pretty vicious to the women in this play. He orders Ophelia for instance to "get thee to a nunnery" and he tells his mother Gertrude, "frailty, thy name is woman" even though Hamlet isn't terribly robust, as you may have noticed. Now there's been some backlash to us discussing gender dynamics in literature, but this is a really important contemporary approach to the study of literature. It's not the only one, it's not the only one that we do here, but it is one that matters. So a…

be classified as a revenge tragedy due to its subject matter. Some elements of tragedy include complex, character-driven plots, noble, yet flawed, main characters, and highly embellished language. Hamlet contains these elements, respectively, in Hamlet’s convoluted attempts to avenge his father, his paradoxical good and bad traits, and the eloquent soliloquies given by various characters. The full name of the play, The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, gives a pretty good idea of what the…

draws heavily upon ‘Hamlet’ for this theme. The questions pondered by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (e.g. whether the dead are conscious, or in other words whether death is the absolute lack of consciousness) are in many ways a direct translation of Hamlet’s questions (e.g. the existence of an afterlife: “To sleep—perchance to dream…For in that sleep what dreams may come”). ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ draws upon ‘Hamlet’ heavily in terms of themes, explorations and characters, and…

misogyny happens in intervals throughout this play, nonetheless this still remains a key element in the relationships of Hamlet when he is romantically involved with Ophelia as well as Gertrude. When paying close attention to detail you can detect Hamlet’s misogynistic rhetoric towards women. He strongly advised Ophelia to go to a nunnery and be around the presence of nuns rather then to indulge in the deviant actions of sexual…

more important than something as trivial as moving or speaking non-sense. Estragon and Vladimir want to help Hamlet and listen to his story as their friend. They want to save him by destroying the letter that contains word from the king ordering Hamlet’s execution in England. Once again readers wonder would it even be possible for these character or Stoppard to allow Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to follow through with any of these thoughts? Their free will unlike in the other two plays is even…

into a depressive state mixed with manic symptoms for around two weeks. Symptoms of Bipolar I disorder include peculiar behavior and extreme emotions or mood swings, like being happy one minute, to turning mad or depressed the next. In this play, Hamlet’s behavior follows the symptoms and description of Bipolar I disorder. At the start of the play, Hamlet exhibits Bipolar I disorder through his many episodes of…

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a classic poem written by T.S. Elliot, in which we explore the inner thoughts of the speaker, Prufrock. Readers see how afraid he is. Prufrock is afraid of outside judgement, he is afraid that one wrong move will result in him becoming the laughingstock of the very person or group of people he so desperately wants to please. Another classic work of literature is Hamlet, written by Shakespeare. Hamlet tells the story of an angry, broken-hearted prince:…

of her dead husband, the late King Hamlet. They want him to end his mourning by explaining that everyone dies and it is “unmanly” to continue to grief for his loss. This scene seems to be led by Claudius, with Gertrude being a follower. 2. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy, he wishes he could commit suicide because his mother 's remarriage has upset him to the point of despair and grief. Hamlet wishes his skin would…