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One of the things that makes a playwright a great playwright, is their ability to make characters who are three-dimensional. Characters who have only one trait to them become dull, and boring over time. William Shakespeare; however, was a master of characterization. In the play, Hamlet, William Shakespeare gives Prince Hamlet a three-dimensional character by portraying him as, among many other things, a clever, and, at times, a violent and crazy man. Throughout the play, Hamlet shows great wit and cleverness. During the first acts of the play, Hamlet fools everyone into thinking his father's death has caused Hamlet to go mad. When Hamlet says: HAMLET: ... How strange or odd some'er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on).... he tells his friends to not to mention anything if he should suddenly act strangely. This shows Hamlet's cleverness because Hamlet uses this 'madness' as a ploy to not arouse suspicion of his strange behavior while he carries out his plans of revenge. Hamlet's plan shows ano
Hamlet is in such a rage at this point, that he throws caution to the wind and stabs at something behind a curtain without even knowing exactly who or what is behind it. Hamlet also shows that he as lost a bit of his presence of mind when speaks of his two old friends, Rozencrantz and Gildenstern, in Act III: Here, he insults Laertes' fencing ability by saying that Laertes' skill is so much less than that of his own, that their two abilities will contrast like a single shining star on the entire black sky. Another instance of Hamlet's sharp wit is when he talks to Claudius about where Polonius' corpse is. When Hamlet is asked to reveal where he has hidden the body, he replies with: And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet Hamlet simply means that he will stay one step ahead of the two friends, but the manner in which he describes how is going to do it is utterly devilish. When Hamlet goes so far as to say how sweet blowing them to the moon is, one can almost imagine that crazed look he must have on his face. Another example of Hamlet's violent nature is at the end of Act IV Scene IV:
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