Hamlet Character Analysis for book and 2 movies versions
1In the original version of the famous play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet, Prince of Denmark son of the late King Hamlet and nephew of the present king, is a melancholy protagonist and the main character of the play. This is also the case in two other movie versions of the play, one directed by Francis Zefferilli, and another directed by Kenneth Branagh. 2Hamlet has this same main characteristic, and additional emotions, that branch off of this main characteristic such as depression and anger, in both movie versions of the play. He is a very emotional character throughout all of the different productions. It is his stage of emotion that notably alters from Shakespeare’s version, to Zefferilli’s version, and to Branagh’s version, and these distinct stages of emotion constitute incontestable physical responses towards other characters in the play. In Shakespeare’s version, in the beginning of the story, Hamlet’s character was struggling with the sudden marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius, a month after his father is death. He is disturbed at the speed with which his mother has recovered from mourning her dead husband to marry the new king. He expres
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Approximate Word count = 1280
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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