Hamlet
The trust that a person has in his friends and family is paramount to a healthy life and quality relationships. Once this trust is broken or betrayed, a person's security can be shattered, leaving him doubtful and insecure about all aspects of life. When betrayal of trust is coupled with a sinister action like murder, a person can lose all sense of right and wrong and react in ways that protect himself from those he feels betrayed by, which is what Maynard Mack is trying to say in his statement about Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, "The young man growing up is not to be allowed simply to endure a rotten world, he must also act in it." In this Shakespearean tragedy, Hamlet is the young prince who gets involved in such a scenario. "He is a young man who comes home from his university to find his father dead, and his mother remarried to his father's murderer. Subsequently the woman he loves rejects him, he is betrayed by his friends and finally and most painfully, he is betrayed by !a mother whose mutability seems to strike at the heart of human affection." (Kirsch 137 -Hamlet Harold Bloom). Part of the tragedy of this play is the mere fact that Hamlet is put in a position where he cannot trust anyone or an
Hamlet also is quick to understand that his school friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern did not make the journey to Denmark out of concern for Hamlet, but Kirsch, Arthur. "Shakespeare's Tragedies." William Shakespeare: His World, and family shows that once again Shakespeare was able to illuminate a dark side his scheming until the very end, and Hamlet becomes aware of them always just a little too late. Claudius is the personification of evil, betrayal and distrust throughout the play. Hamlet is truly a tragic hero. ything around him. When the theme of revenge is set and obvious from the beginning of the play, Hamlet loses the body of contraction plucks/The very soul, and sweet religion makes/A rhapsody of words!" (III, iv, 42-49). Hamlet is torn between the duty and love for (V, ii, 51 -53). "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern cannot be direct with and Hamlet cuts his losses with them quickly and eventually quite savagely"(Kirsch, 511). Hamlet was forced to this action of forgery out of self-preservation. At the center of all of the mistrust and evil in Hamlet's life is his uncle, the new King and his step-father, Claudius. Hamlet knows that he cannot trust the man who so eagerly took the throne and his late brother's wife. Hamlet has every cause to be uneasy about his uncle. Besides the ghost telling Hamlet the truth, Claudius reacts so emotionally to the play a Unfortunately, Hamlet knows from the beginning that he cannot trust his mother. Not only has she quickly married his uncle so soon after his father's, her husband's death, but she also seems to be happy about this new relationship. "Such an act/ That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,/ Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose/ From the fair forehead of an innocent love/ And sets a blister, there, makes marriage vows/ As false as dicers' oaths-O, such a deed/As from
Some common words found in the essay are:
Claudius Hamlet, Unfortunately Hamlet, Prince Denmark, Bernardo Marcellus, Harold Bloom, Rosencrantz Guildenstern, King Hamlet, England Hamlet's, Ophelia Hamlet's, King Queen, rosencrantz guildenstern, play hamlet, harold bloom, hamlet prince, hamlet ed, hamlet's reaction protect, chelsea house, york chelsea, bloom york, publishers 1990, ed harold, bloom york chelsea, hamlet ed harold, ed harold bloom, harold bloom york,
Approximate Word count = 1478
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
