Eassy On Hamlet

Human’s advanced memory has given them a strategic evolutionary advantage for several millennia, but it does come with certain side effects. Humans, they tend to become overly attached to their memories. They are often unable to properly recover from traumatic experiences such as the loss of loved ones as a result of their inability to control what and how they remember. They also spend an irrational amount of time obsessing with how others will remember them. Memory is one of the greatest tools created by the randomness of the universe, but it is often utilized in a destructive manner. Hamlet was a flawed hero. The memory of his deceased father made him weak, indecisive, but it simultaneously gave him the fire, the raw passion, to rise up
Although he has very few lines, he was the one who originally started Hamlet on his vindictive and ruinous path. Although King Hamlet’s influence on Hamlet was unquestionably real, his own reality as a sentient spirit is doubtful. The spirit never says anything that Hamlet could not have inferred by himself. In fact, it probably stated what was already on the mind of Hamlet already. Surely, the suddenness of his father’s death and Claudius’ lack of grief sparked suspicion in Hamlet’s mind. Factoring that and Hamlet’s overwhelming grief, the vision was most likely a hallucinatory protrusion of his mental anguish, self-contained suspicion, and overwhelming yearning to be reunited with his father. Hamlet’s vision even took the form of his father suited in armor. It is probable that this was Hamlet greatest memory of his father; honorable, courageous, and battle-ready. The one quarrel a reader may have with this theory is that Hamlet was not the only person to see King Hamlet’s spirit; Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio all witnessed the specter before Hamlet. This fact complicates the theory, but it does not discredit it. Folie à quatre, or the madness of four, is a psychological phenomenom in which four people share the same delusion. Bernardo and Marcellus were both standing guard of the castle. Surrounded by darkness and in mourning over their beloved king, it is feasible to understand how they may have fallen for their own brains’ trickery. Horatio was put into a similar position as the two guards. Lead into the ominous thicket of darkness and ensured of the credibility of the spirit by two others, the curious Horatio wanted to see the spirit and likely wanted to study it. The spirit spoke to the three men, but its exclamations were vague and essentially meaningless. This makes sense since they did not share Hamlet’s suspicions. This theory of shared hallucinations also gives the reader an