The Tragedy Of Hamlet-Prince of Denmark

Hamlets loyalty seems to be good on the outside towards the new king. But inside he is really disgusted of what his mother and uncles marriage has done to him. They became the new royal pair and Hamlet sees that as a shame mark on his father, the late king. After his encounter with the ghost of his father the ghost convinced Hamlet to avenge his father. He began to see the new king as a treacherous villain. Hamlets true loyalty lays to the late king who is demanding vengeance on this brother which is the plot of the story.

Hamlet has a great tongue because he tricks people by his own words. He makes everyone to believe that he’s mad. Hamlets also get his uncle to reveal himself of murdering his father by setting up a play about a king, his queen and his younger brother who’s jealous at him. The brother murders the king by poisoning him of the drink he offered him. With the kings demise the brother becomes the new king and the former queen remarries with him to have her power unchanged.

Hamlets quest for his vengeance made him really selfish so he doesn’t even care how the others around him feel. His obsession on the vision of late king’s spirit is so strong that he sometimes really goes mad. All the current tragic events that happen around Hamlet mostly because of his negative behaviour and selfishness which makes people depressed and angry at him. ´´The big flaw is that Hamlet has a very indecisive side of his personality so the problem is that he is filled with all this thoughts and doubts and is having a hard time trying to carry out the revenge.´´ (from discussion with Niclas 20110216)

Yeah every inch of his life is so tragic that you can’t feel a little bit of sympathy for him. He seems to be a slave by his uncle’s actions and that almost no one cares how he feels. He doesn’t seem to have many friends and his marriage that is about to happen was a mess. Even if his fiancé Ophelia loves him it seems more like a business affair because the fathers of the two don’t support them seriously. Another thing is that they never do anything to increase their fondness to each other. Also every time when you see Hamlet and Ophelia together there’s always someone there talking about the marriage and what they going to do. Ophelia’s father Polonius is a prime example. You see him always near his daughter, advice her, talking to the king about the pair and even spying when Hamlet and Ophelia get to know each other. This is not what I call a romantic relationship, it´s only a manipulation.

By William Uudelepp