Hamlet - Textual Integrity
Half-Yearly Exam Practice Essay Student: 24760367
How has your critical study of 'Hamlet' shaped your understanding of the texual integrity of the dramatic piece?
William Shakespeare's famous tragedy 'Hamlet' follows a young prince of Denmark who after his father's death, is confronted by his fathers ghost and sets out to prove his uncles participation in killing his father and marrying his mother, "the serpent that did sting thy father now wears his crown". For over 400 years, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' has been studied and examined countless times by scholars and students alike, all of whom have had different interpretations on the dramatic piece as a consequence of the texual integrity of the play. The plays exposure of life's fundamental and timeless questions in which are still relevant today, allows for the continual study and reinterpretation of the dramatic piece.
Hamlet's character does not conform to a typical tragic hero in the fact that Hamlet's personal qualities lacks hubris or any form of excessive pride which is one of the fundamental causes of the fall of any traditional tragic hero. For Hamlet, rather it's his hamartia or tragic flaw of vasolation and indecisiveness "thou art a scholar," that leads to Hamlet's downfall. Because of this, it can be argued that Hamlet was not suited to the task that was set out before him, as seen in Hamlet's first silioquy in which is formed by the question, "who's there?". This foreshadows Hamlet's continual comtemplative state throughout the entirety of play and therefore emphasises Hamlet's inability to act as a result of his indecisiveness between what is morally right and morally wrong. This interpretation contributes to the enigmatic qualities of the dramatic piece in which have been speculated for more than three centuries as a result of the playwright's texual integrity.
Different responses to the play arise from variations in world view in which is influenced by the historical, social and cultural
How has your critical study of 'Hamlet' shaped your understanding of the texual integrity of the dramatic piece?
William Shakespeare's famous tragedy 'Hamlet' follows a young prince of Denmark who after his father's death, is confronted by his fathers ghost and sets out to prove his uncles participation in killing his father and marrying his mother, "the serpent that did sting thy father now wears his crown". For over 400 years, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' has been studied and examined countless times by scholars and students alike, all of whom have had different interpretations on the dramatic piece as a consequence of the texual integrity of the play. The plays exposure of life's fundamental and timeless questions in which are still relevant today, allows for the continual study and reinterpretation of the dramatic piece.
Hamlet's character does not conform to a typical tragic hero in the fact that Hamlet's personal qualities lacks hubris or any form of excessive pride which is one of the fundamental causes of the fall of any traditional tragic hero. For Hamlet, rather it's his hamartia or tragic flaw of vasolation and indecisiveness "thou art a scholar," that leads to Hamlet's downfall. Because of this, it can be argued that Hamlet was not suited to the task that was set out before him, as seen in Hamlet's first silioquy in which is formed by the question, "who's there?". This foreshadows Hamlet's continual comtemplative state throughout the entirety of play and therefore emphasises Hamlet's inability to act as a result of his indecisiveness between what is morally right and morally wrong. This interpretation contributes to the enigmatic qualities of the dramatic piece in which have been speculated for more than three centuries as a result of the playwright's texual integrity.
Different responses to the play arise from variations in world view in which is influenced by the historical, social and cultural