In Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's most popular works, he shows just how much he knew about the complexities of the human mind. The approach taken by Shakespeare in Hamlet has generated an infinite number of interpretations on the plays meaning. Through young Hamlet's struggle in confronting his internal dilemma, deciding whether or not to avenge his father's death, the reader is made aware of one of the more common interpretations in Hamlet ; the idea that Shakespeare attempting to comment on the influence that a persons mental state has on their life's decisions.

As the play unfolds, Shakespeare uses the encounters that Hamlet must face to demonstrate the effect that one's perspective can have on the development of the human mind. Some critics have noticed that the encounters that Shakespeare uses Hamlets encounters to look into the workings of the human mind.

"What we have in Hamlet is the exploration and implicit criticism of a particular state of mind or consciousness. In Haml

Cahn, Victor L. Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete

San Francisco: Stanford Press, 1966.

In order to understand fully how Hamlet's perspective plays an important role in this play, the reader must attempt to answer the question "why does Hamlet delay his revenge on Claudius ?" The answer to this question is at best somewhat complicated.

In Hamlet, Shakespeare gives the reader an opportunity to evaluate the way the title character handles a very complicated dilemma and the problems that are generated because of it. These problems that face Hamlet are perhaps best viewed as overstatements of the very problems that all people must face as they live their lives each day. The magnitudes of these "everyday" problems are almost always a matter of individual perspective. Each person will perceive a given situation based on his or her own state of mind. The one, perhaps universal dilemma that faces all of mankind is the problem of identity. "Hamlet's primary dilemma is that of every human being: given this time and place and these circumstances, How is he to respond ? What is his responsibility ?" (Cahn, 69) This dilemma fits in well with the aforementioned ones because it too requires serious introspection on the part of Hamlet to resolve his problems. Also, it supp

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