How Does Hamlet Change Throughout The Play

Hamlet is the main character of a well-known Shakespeare play named Hamlet. In this play, Hamlet is the son of the late king Hamlet, who was recently murdered by the new king Claudius. Prince Hamlet has trouble dealing with his father’s passing and his mother’s quick remarriage. Throughout the play Hamlet deals with many emotions. Hamlet represents a typical protagonist of a Shakespearean tragedy. Hamlet starts the story as a troubled and conceited character, but irrevocably changes into altruistic soul before his inevitable death. In the beginning of the play, King Claudius addresses Hamlet as “...my cousin Hamlet, and my son”(1.2.65) in which Hamlet replies “A little more than kin, and less than kind” (1.2.66) in a quip. This statement tells
While talking in his mother’s closet, Hamlet sees feet behind the curtain. Hamlet believed that this was the king and he indiscriminately stabbed through the curtain with his rapier. After he realized that he had not killed the king, but instead Polonius, Hamlet felt no remorse. While in Act IV, after Hamlet encountered Fortinbras. Hamlet became infuriated that he had not avenged his father. At the end of one of his soliloquies, Hamlet said “My thoughts be bloody or nothing worth” (4.4.68). At this point the passion for murder had blinded Hamlet and he had become so blinded that he lost his love, Ophelia. In Act V, we see Hamlet change drastically. Hamlet is on his way back to Elsinore after being captured by amicable pirates. On his way back home, Hamlet sees gravediggers. Hamlet picks up a skull from a grave and asks a gravedigger who it was. The gravedigger said it was Yorick, the king’s deceased jester. Hamlet remembers Yorick from when he was a child and realizes that life is precious. Hamlet then sees Ophelia being brought in to be buried. He loses it and jumps into her grave with her. We learn that Hamlet truly did love Ophelia, and that he pushed her away for her own