Hamlet's Indecisiveness

everything and it is just building more and more stress upon him. One reason the stress was building was because of the fact that hamlet was overthinking the whole situation and wasn’t taking action when he had the chances. It was only because of Hamlet's indecisiveness that soon led to prolonged conflict and eventually his death. All Hamlet wanted to do was to kill the murderer Cladius who murdered his father and what did he get in return? Death. He was to be a tragic hero to save the day, but…

people to act recklessly. A foil is a character whose personality and attitude is opposite of the personality and attitude of another character. In the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, young Fortinbras as well as Laertes are the foils of Hamlet; Hamlet’s actions, personality and attitude are very different and very opposing to those of Young Fortinbras and Laertes. While Hamlet plans out his revenge but never acts upon it, both Fortinbras and Laertes act upon revenge at any opportune…

Referencing , It is almost as if “Hamlet is torn between doing what his father has commanded of him, and what he and all of society knows what is morally right ().” Immediately following Hamlet's conversation with the Ghost of his father he seems determined to fulfill his wishes in avenging his death, but his hesitation is later proven during Claudius’s repentance. While Claudius is kneeling and praying, Prince Hamlet is lurking behind him…

Originality is a concept which has changed and evolved over hundreds of years. Indeed, the definition of originality, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the “ability to think or express oneself in an independent and individual manner” , has not always been so rigid. In the Elizabethan era the concept of originality was not concerned with whose idea was whose. In fact, originality was all about how the idea was portrayed, for instance, whether it was performed on stage or by other…

In Ancient Greece, the epitome of the tragic theater was Sophocles’ Oedipus plays, according to Aristotle, and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet defined the Elizabethan revenge tragedy. Playwrights today still take ideas from Greek and Elizabethan theater and modernize them in their own plays, such as Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and The Crucible and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Undoubtedly, the focus, themes, conflict, and structure of a tragedy has changed and evolved from…

uppity woman being put in her place by a good man, and any Shakespearean play with a strong female character offering useful advice either ends with her death in the tragedies or subdued in marriage in the comedies. Ophelia in Hamlet seeing through Hamlet’s insane act, Cordelia in King Lear telling her father not to be so careless with his kingdom in his old age, Juliet begging Romeo to wait until after the masquerade to kiss her in case someone saw them. Dead, banished, dead. But in the famed…

Throughout history, females have been subjugated to the will of men and forced to live as second class citizens. Women that have tried to break from these stereotypes and advocate for their own rights and equality have often faced even harsher consequences at the hands of powerful, domineering men trying to preserve the social construct. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Ophelia, a young women ambivalent of her own position in society, shows moments of outright submission and resignation, while…