Back to category: English

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

hamlet

In Shakespear's Hamlet, the reader gets to know what has been called the "two Hamlets in the play," the first who is considered to be the sensitive intellectual who is able to express himself through poetry and who comes across as being dedicated to truth. The other, barbaric side of Hamlet who treats Ophelia so cruelly with no empathy, slays Polonius and speaks of dragging his guts into another room, and who sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths without any remorse. However, most interpreters of Hamlet see him as a "tragic hero" with a clear and sacred obligation to kill Claudius but due to his being a victim of great external difficulties, is unable to do so right away. Shakespeare purposely makes Hamlet out to be a procrastinator for one very important reason, if Hamlet would have quickly pursued this revenge,

Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Laertes, and of course

Hamlet himself would have survived and Shakespeare would not have achieved ...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.