How Does Hamlet Change Throughout The Play

Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is the first play of great tragedies. Because of Hamlet’s father’s death, Hamlet is faced with life’s most difficult question about the nature of good and evil. Love, grief, anger, or despair can bring about dramatic action but by taking the life of a human needs only the nerve of a common man. Revenge however, calls for wisdom and discipline. The Protagonist, “Hamlet” some thought displayed signs of true and feigned madness. He displayed over whelming grief to rage. Some think that treachery, revenge, incest and moral corruption and also the desire to avenge his Father’s death drove Hamlet mad. Hamlet is known as a tragic hero because he died in the play trying to accomplish his goal of getting revenge for his father’s
death Hamlet is extremely Philosophical and contemplative. He is drawn to the difficult question that can’t be easily answered with any certainty, such as the questions about life and death. Hamlet also behaved irrational and impulsive like when he wildly stabbed Polonius who was hiding behind the curtains. Hamlet killed Polonius, Ophelia’s father, thinking he was Claudius, Hamlet becomes melancholy and discontented with the state of affairs in Denmark and his own family. Hamlet is a dynamic character in the play and the change is rapid from him being a normal person into a mad person.
The change in the play is obvious and a big part of the play since it made him go crazy. The change is believable and his motivation is revenge, since his father’s ghost encouraged his change by telling him that Claudius murdered him and he wanted Hamlet to avenge his death. Hamlet handles the change by going mad scaring the other characters in the play just like when he yelled at Ophelia and his mother and also killed Polonius. The other characters in the play called Hamlet mad because of his
actions. Hamlet had some strengthens like he was somewhat considered to have high moral values, he is considered popular, and he is also considered to be heroic. Hamlet also had weaknesses like he was contemplating about suicide and he was cynical of women. Hamlet is cynical of women because he was shattered by his mother’s decision to marry Claudius so soon after her husband’s death. That’s why Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia wasn’t that strong because he came to hate women. Hamlet thought that sexuality caused immorality. There are different kinds of conflicts in “Hamlet” that Hamlet has to face like man vs.
man, man vs. himself, and man vs. fate. The man vs. man conflict was between Hamlet and Claudius which is his uncle. The conflict started when hamlet found out about his father’s death and Hamlet wanted revenge and Claudius knew that Hamlet was a threat to him after Hamlet killed Polonius and that’s why he tried to send him to England but when Hamlet came back from England Claudius tried to poison him. Hamlet also had a man vs. man conflict with Laertes that ended up in a sword fight because Laertes was angry about his father’s
death. The other type of conflict was man vs. himself when Hamlet was losing his self and going crazy. Hamlet also was dealing with the struggle of good and evil on doing what is right on killing Claudius. Hamlet was letting his anger and emotions get the better of him that’s why he went crazy and made rash decisions. The last type of conflict Hamlet faced was man vs. fate. Hamlet knew it was his fate to kill Claudius since his father’s ghost came to him and told Hamlet to get revenge and at the end Fortinbras became the king of Denmark after Gertrude, Claudius, Hamlet, and Laertes died. Hamlet lived a hard life after his father’s death and his mother marrying his father’s murder didn’t help him any. He started to show signs of insanity after what happened to his father and he could not control his anger and emotions well which, lead to his death at the end of the play. So Hamlet paid the ultimate price because of the decisions he made that cost him his life plus some others.