Prince Hamlet

period women were socially degraded and were inferior to men. The society win which Hamlet, from the play Hamlet, resides in is a patriarchal society – a system where men are in authority over women in all aspects of society. In the play Hamlet, women are portrayed as weak and inferior through the dysfunctional relationships between father daughter, Polonius and Ophelia, the royal family, Claudius and Gertrude, and Hamlet and Ophelia; objects that assist or hinder the actions of men and lack…

In Hamlet by William Shakespeare the relationship between Hamlet and Claudius was depicted as extremely troubled from the beginning and continued to deteriorate further with the lack of trust. Their relationship is completely tainted by deceit and there is no trust between Hamlet and Claudius due to the actions taken by both characters and the decline of Hamlet’s state of mind. Honesty is treated like a joke through the entire play. Lies and deceit seem to be a common theme through the entire…

and bring out the person’s hidden flaws. In the play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, this was what happened to Prince Hamlet. Through the process of accomplishing the four commands given to him by his father, Hamlet is swayed in various directions because of his nature of wanting to understand the whole situation himself and his flaw, which is his imbalance in controlling his actions. Due to Hamlet’s disposition, he is a person who…

The character of Hamlet is considered as one of most complex fictional character created by William Shakespeare. Every time we see and examine the character, we find some new traits in it. Hamlet is like an enigma. No matter how many times it is analyzed, the real color of Hamlet’s character is never found. On one hand, hamlet is miserable young man, in self imposed exile from the society and on the other he is the hero…

Center of Contradiction—Hamlet “To be or not to be” is the most famous sentence from the play Hamlet, which is written by William Shakespeare. It is an expression from the desperate prince Hamlet. From Hamlet’s view, he questions about two things. Should he keep revenging for the Old Hamlet; should he keep living or commit suicide? From an outsider’s perspective, this is a question that Hamlet brought up to demonstrate he is struggling from keeping or losing his sanity. Hamlet is a really…

Shakespeare crafted his four great tragedies: King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, and Hamlet. All four of these plays contain a tragic hero, who either dies or experiences a dramatic downfall because of his tragic flaw. Hamlet’s tragic flaw is his inability to act to avenge his father's death; however, corruption in Denmark is also a prevalent issue throughout the play. In Hamlet, as Hamlet leaves to follow his ghostly father King Hamlet, Marcellus states that “Something is rotten in the state of…

own life through his own drive, imagination, and ambition. Instead, he sits back and waits for it to happen to him. Unlike most people, he does not act in the present to secure the future he envisions for himself. The thoughtful and introspective prince…

Unlike Dante, Hamlet is a much less godly believer, but still a believer. He is unsure of his reason. He is a Protestant, and undoubtedly religious, but confused as to where we all go in the end. Is it really the hell Dante describes in The Inferno, or is our God a much more merciful God? He knows what the Catholic beliefs about sin are and believes suicided will send him to hell, and from almost the first moment we hear our depressed prince speak he says, “O, that this too too sullied flesh…

Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as noble, intelligent, loyal, and contemplative. However, he is constantly questioning his position in life, especially when his father passed away, and when his mother married his father’s brother. One night, the ghost of his deceased father returns to Elsinore, and asks young Hamlet to avenge his death and kill the source of the treachery; although, it requires Hamlet to challenge the morals by which he has been raised. Appalled by the requests of the ghost, Hamlet…

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a kind of madness ultimately infects everyone, leading to an ending in which almost every major character is dead. Two of these maddened characters are Hamlet and Ophelia, who also share a love for each other. But the Ophelia is truly mad while Hamlet is not. Hamlet is madly in order to protect himself and to test whether Claudius really killed his father, also is his elder brother, even though everyone believe he is truly mad and because of Ophelia, she reject…