Hamlet Analytical Essay

The play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare is a tragic story about a prince named Hamlet attempting to get revenge for his father's murder. As Hamlet only to slowly destroy his life in the process. As Hamlet attempts to get revenge, he ultimately ends up destroying himself and the people around him. But before his death, Hamlet slowly decides what he wants to do with his life. Hamlet goes from thinking the world holds nothing for him but not wanting to kill himself because he fears god in the first Soliloquy, to living to avenge his father if needed in the second Soliloquy, to fearing death in the third Soliloquy. Hamlet slowly decides what he wants to do with his life, through his first three Soliloquies in the play The play begins with Hamlet returning home from school, after his father’s death and the remarriage of his mother, the queen, to his uncle. Hamlet after arriving home has a mostly one sided conversation with his new stepfather about how Hamlet should stop mourning his father's death, and stay in Denmark with his family. After this conversation Hamlet shares what
Hamlet, still unsure whether or not he can trust the ghost, whips up a plan to prove his Uncle murdered his father. He decides to make his uncle show him if he is guilty or not with the following plan, “I’ll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks; I’ll tent him to the quick. If he do blench, I know my course”(2.2.610-614). Hamlet decides that if his uncle “do blench” when he see’s a similar sight to “the murder of” Hamlet’s father in a play, his uncle is guilty. If his uncle is guilty, Hamlet will take “course” to kill him. Hamlet has decided that he needs to live in order to avenge his father, if he really was murdered. Next there is Hamlet’s new view on