Hamlet Essay
Pre Essay Writing-Alternate Lesson Combine 7/8
Hamlet-Psychological
-Hamlet is a sophisticated, contemplative, thoughtful and capable young man supported by his attendance to Wittenburg University.
- Upon introduction to the character Hamlet, he is a man consumed with emotion and grief which is complimented by an obsession with death. This image is captivated by the passage of remarks he makes in Act 1 Scene 2.
-Hamlet is enigmatic: There is always more to him than others can comprehend.
-Hamlet is plagued with questions about the afterlife, about the wisdom of suicide, and about what happens to the body once the person is deceased.
-He ponders both the physical and spiritual aftermath of death
-Decision making under uncertainty is a key central theme of the play. Despite Hamlet being an intelligent man and the son of a natural born leader, he finds himself caught up in a situation where decision making is very difficult.
-The consequences of the decision are inevitable for Hamlet.
-Hamlet has a quest for revenge, and having Claudius’s dead is the success to that quest.
-Indecisive and hesitant, but in various scenarios overwhelmed and prone to rash and impulsive acts.
-His deep emotions are contrasted by the court being in high spirits despite the very recent death of his father.
-Despises his mother’s hasty choice to rebound from his father so quickly and engage in a sexual relationship with Claudius.
-Hamlet will never see Claudius as anything close to the king his father was, even as Claudius enforces the fact that he can see him as a fatherly figure.
This is captivated by the statement:
We pray you to throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father (1.2-105-108)
-Through his desperation to make sense of the reality of his situation, he finds himself in a paradox: Must commit murder to avenge a murder.
- His actions are erratic, evident through his quick, swift, irrational decision of murdering Polonius behind
Hamlet-Psychological
-Hamlet is a sophisticated, contemplative, thoughtful and capable young man supported by his attendance to Wittenburg University.
- Upon introduction to the character Hamlet, he is a man consumed with emotion and grief which is complimented by an obsession with death. This image is captivated by the passage of remarks he makes in Act 1 Scene 2.
-Hamlet is enigmatic: There is always more to him than others can comprehend.
-Hamlet is plagued with questions about the afterlife, about the wisdom of suicide, and about what happens to the body once the person is deceased.
-He ponders both the physical and spiritual aftermath of death
-Decision making under uncertainty is a key central theme of the play. Despite Hamlet being an intelligent man and the son of a natural born leader, he finds himself caught up in a situation where decision making is very difficult.
-The consequences of the decision are inevitable for Hamlet.
-Hamlet has a quest for revenge, and having Claudius’s dead is the success to that quest.
-Indecisive and hesitant, but in various scenarios overwhelmed and prone to rash and impulsive acts.
-His deep emotions are contrasted by the court being in high spirits despite the very recent death of his father.
-Despises his mother’s hasty choice to rebound from his father so quickly and engage in a sexual relationship with Claudius.
-Hamlet will never see Claudius as anything close to the king his father was, even as Claudius enforces the fact that he can see him as a fatherly figure.
This is captivated by the statement:
We pray you to throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father (1.2-105-108)
-Through his desperation to make sense of the reality of his situation, he finds himself in a paradox: Must commit murder to avenge a murder.
- His actions are erratic, evident through his quick, swift, irrational decision of murdering Polonius behind