Hamlet

Appearance Vs. Reality

Life can be very demanding, especially as a teenager. In society today, it can be very overwhelming and challenging to live as a teenager. It is hard to determine right from wrong, good from bad, appearance from reality. On a daily basis, I am forced to make dicisions in my life that can often lead into big problems. Everyday people have trouble distinguishng the difference between reality and what seems to be real. Often the contrast can blow a minor conflict into a larger problem. In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the contrast between appearance and reality turned small problems into large problems similar to the way I sturggle in my everyday life.
In Hamlet, Claudius killed the king so he could become the ruler of Denmark. When Hamlet found out about his father’s death, and his mother’s incestuous new love he should have killed Claudius then. If he would have known the differ...