Topic > Critical Analysis of Hamlet - 1367

William Shakespeare's complex play Hamlet contains many different characters and themes. With the many themes contained in Hamlet, what was most striking was how indecisive Hamlet is compared to many of the other characters in the play. Hamlet tends to do a lot of grabbing, going back and forth about what to do, and takes slow or no action. Hamlet is mostly about ideas, leaving most of them to the control of fate. A large number of deaths occurred due to Hamlet's choices and the amount of time he spent making those choices. Hamlet's lack of action caused more problems than solutions throughout the play. By using only a few characters within the play, one can easily see how Hamlet could have prevented most of them. It begins to strike oneself with the beginning of everything, as can be seen from the title of the soliloquy. He continues, admiring the players for their ability to lie and to be able to decide the audience using strong emotions. Shakespeare also used this as an opportunity to show how much Hamlet overthinks ideas and how he can go slightly in a different direction, slowing down what he chooses to do. “He flooded the scene with tears and rent the general ear with horrible speeches” (2.2 589-590). Shakespeare also foreshadows Hamlet's idea of ​​using actors to prove that his uncle is guilty. The foreshadowing is seen when Hamlet wonders what the actor would do if given a script to rehearse, continuing on the “stage with tears.” Hamlet begins to reconsider the idea of ​​avenging his father's death. He begins to believe that he doesn't have the ability or courage to do it in the end. He lacks the emotional drive, but he knows he still has a gut feeling that he needs to avenge his father's murder. «But I have the liver of a pigeon and I lack gall» (2,2 604). Hamlet then begins to wish for his uncle to fall. Hamlet talks about wishing he had fed the big birds so they would kill his uncle, Hamlet continues this by insulting his uncle saying he is a whore man, guiltless and a man of determination. “Merciless, treacherous, lecherous, after Hamlet made the player reenact the death of Hamlet's father, Claudius began to freak out. Claudius began quietly by asking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take Hamlet to England to be killed. “With letters congruent to that effect, the present death of Hamlet. Do it, England. (4.4 73-74) Hamlet learns of these letters, and instead of showing them to someone else to prove that the king is a bad person, he hides them and continues to wait, before killing the king. This seems to be Hamlet's tragic flaw throughout the play. Every time he gets a chance to avenge his father, he rejects it or doesn't realize it. When Hamlet returns after attempting to ship him to England, he finds his love, Ophelia, dead. When he made the rash choice to join the king, queen, and Laertes at the funeral and start fighting with Laertes, the king panicked. Due to the king's panic, he goes to the emotionally distraught Laertes and proposes a plan to poison Hamlet. However, in the end the plan turns out to be sloppy due to the speed with which both Laertes and the king tried to carry it out. “I will, and for this I will anoint my sword” (4.7 159-160) “When you are in motion you are warm and dry (how to make your attacks more violent for this purpose) and that he asks for a drink, I will have prepared for him the moment a cup, from which he will only be able to sip, if by chance he escapes your poison