Hamlet Analytical Essay
As the Shakespearean novel “Hamlet” comes to a close, one is able to understand themisconceptions that was displayed on Hamlets character. In the final Act, Hamlet says “The readiness isall” (223-224) and when first reading this line, you can understand that it’s a simple interpretation ofwhat is took place in Scene 2, when Hamlet planned to have a fencing match with Laertes. When he saysthis, he really means that ‘they must be prepared’. This has a double meaning because for some reading,they could understand that he seemed to be “prepared” for the fencing match, when in reality he meantit to be about everything. His entire existence, once introduced to his Fathers Ghost, was to avenge thatdeath by killing his uncle. But during this act, he realized that he was ready for
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anything, which wouldlater be his death.This bears the question, if life is summed to giving up when faced with death and I honestlydon’t believe that to be true. Hamlet wasn’t giving up and waiting for death to take him (i.e. fulfilling thepromise to kill his uncle), he was simply accepting all the things he had done and that was his attitudeentering the fencing match against Laertes. When he realized his mother was dying, because of thepoisoned cup, he demanded that Claudius drink it too, and was later poisoned with the Laertes’ blade,which he wasn’t mad about because Hamlet was the reason Polonius was dead.
Hamlet made sure toapologize to him, and he blamed it on his madness.Hamlet’s relationship with the evil of the world, was, in the beginning of the play, recognized ashis father, the ghost who came to haunt him in order for him to avenge King Hamlets death. But the realevil was his “madness” because it brought out a side of Hamlet that the audience didn’t know wascapable to surfacing. Hamlet was always known as the little boy, who lost his father, and returning hometo find his mother married to his Uncle Claudius, angered him, and when he truth was revealed that hisuncle killed his father, something arouses in Hamlet, something with anger and grief combined. Withthis Hamlet believed for a long time that he was supposed to kill his Uncle and that was his destiny, andhe felt that the best way to do so was to act crazy, in hope that it would force Claudius to expose hisguilt, but in Act 5, the readers are able to see that his destiny was to forgive, and to allow to be
forgiven.
anything, which wouldlater be his death.This bears the question, if life is summed to giving up when faced with death and I honestlydon’t believe that to be true. Hamlet wasn’t giving up and waiting for death to take him (i.e. fulfilling thepromise to kill his uncle), he was simply accepting all the things he had done and that was his attitudeentering the fencing match against Laertes. When he realized his mother was dying, because of thepoisoned cup, he demanded that Claudius drink it too, and was later poisoned with the Laertes’ blade,which he wasn’t mad about because Hamlet was the reason Polonius was dead.
Hamlet made sure toapologize to him, and he blamed it on his madness.Hamlet’s relationship with the evil of the world, was, in the beginning of the play, recognized ashis father, the ghost who came to haunt him in order for him to avenge King Hamlets death. But the realevil was his “madness” because it brought out a side of Hamlet that the audience didn’t know wascapable to surfacing. Hamlet was always known as the little boy, who lost his father, and returning hometo find his mother married to his Uncle Claudius, angered him, and when he truth was revealed that hisuncle killed his father, something arouses in Hamlet, something with anger and grief combined. Withthis Hamlet believed for a long time that he was supposed to kill his Uncle and that was his destiny, andhe felt that the best way to do so was to act crazy, in hope that it would force Claudius to expose hisguilt, but in Act 5, the readers are able to see that his destiny was to forgive, and to allow to be
forgiven.