Hamlet Illusion Vs Reality
Do you know the difference between your illusion and reality?
Our five golden senses give us the ability to identify reality, but the most degrading power of imagination guide us into understanding the greater mysteries of our illusion. The realm that we exist in is recognized through our understanding of what we see, hear, and identify by the five senses. In the moments in which our senses are latent, illusions are generated. Some Historians like Daniel Joseph Boostin believe that humans live their lives in an illusion. He states, “We suffer primarily not from our vices or weakness but from our illusions; we are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.”
However, is it really possible to distinguish amongst …show more content…
Although the reader does not know if the ghost is real, it is possible that Hamlet, being a young student who had just lost his dad, was guided by his senses (anger, frustration, and the pain of loss). So much so that he envisioned a way to communicate with his dead father by imagining a ghost. Which asks Hamlet to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (I.v.25). This illusory ghost presents him with a false reality that he can actually kill his stepdad without disturbing the family dynamic and hurting his loved …show more content…
Once again the protagonist is haunted by the ghost of his father but in a different way than Hamlet. In this case the father served as the guiding force for Okonkwo’s life, in that he is determined to never resemble his dad. Okonkwo father was "lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow" (Achebe 4) and so the fear of becoming like his father, makes Okonkwo a strong and successful man. In the end, these traits influence Okonkwo to entirely abandon his feminine side and live as a brutal, abusive
Our five golden senses give us the ability to identify reality, but the most degrading power of imagination guide us into understanding the greater mysteries of our illusion. The realm that we exist in is recognized through our understanding of what we see, hear, and identify by the five senses. In the moments in which our senses are latent, illusions are generated. Some Historians like Daniel Joseph Boostin believe that humans live their lives in an illusion. He states, “We suffer primarily not from our vices or weakness but from our illusions; we are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.”
However, is it really possible to distinguish amongst …show more content…
Although the reader does not know if the ghost is real, it is possible that Hamlet, being a young student who had just lost his dad, was guided by his senses (anger, frustration, and the pain of loss). So much so that he envisioned a way to communicate with his dead father by imagining a ghost. Which asks Hamlet to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (I.v.25). This illusory ghost presents him with a false reality that he can actually kill his stepdad without disturbing the family dynamic and hurting his loved …show more content…
Once again the protagonist is haunted by the ghost of his father but in a different way than Hamlet. In this case the father served as the guiding force for Okonkwo’s life, in that he is determined to never resemble his dad. Okonkwo father was "lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow" (Achebe 4) and so the fear of becoming like his father, makes Okonkwo a strong and successful man. In the end, these traits influence Okonkwo to entirely abandon his feminine side and live as a brutal, abusive