How Is Hamlet A Hero
Erna Aramyan
Professor Compean
English 1B
July 23, 2013.
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragic play written by the famous English playwright William Shakespeare, which portrays how young Prince Hamlet pursues revenge on his uncle for heartless murdering of his father and receiving succession to the throne by marrying his recently widowed mother. Prince Hamlet learns about recently deceased King Hamlet’s murder when the Ghost comes before him, asserting to be his lately departed father’s soul, who came back to demand his son to avenge his vicious death, a “foul and most unnatural murder” (I:V:1375). Hamlet’s protagonist solemnly promises the Ghost to perform an act of revenge on his Uncle Claudius for killing his beloved father, but throughout the play Prince Hamlet continuously delays revenge for his father’s murder. …show more content…
Even though the tragedy takes several months, it was the period of a real transformation from a boy to a hero, who never faced with the dark size of life before. Shakespeare took few lines to describe Hamlet before his tragedy. Hamlet was studying in the Wittenberg University that was located in France. Hamlet was a very intelligent person, he knew literature, art, he wrote poems, and he knew the rules of the stage actions. Also, like a real man in his time, Hamlet knew how to fight with the sword. Hamlet was thirty years old, even though he was old enough to know about life, it did not seem that he actually did. He had to learn about life and people in an unfavorable way. Everything happened after his Father’s death. People that were not supposed to die- died. What made Hamlet change was a finally understanding of what kind of people were around him all the
Professor Compean
English 1B
July 23, 2013.
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragic play written by the famous English playwright William Shakespeare, which portrays how young Prince Hamlet pursues revenge on his uncle for heartless murdering of his father and receiving succession to the throne by marrying his recently widowed mother. Prince Hamlet learns about recently deceased King Hamlet’s murder when the Ghost comes before him, asserting to be his lately departed father’s soul, who came back to demand his son to avenge his vicious death, a “foul and most unnatural murder” (I:V:1375). Hamlet’s protagonist solemnly promises the Ghost to perform an act of revenge on his Uncle Claudius for killing his beloved father, but throughout the play Prince Hamlet continuously delays revenge for his father’s murder. …show more content…
Even though the tragedy takes several months, it was the period of a real transformation from a boy to a hero, who never faced with the dark size of life before. Shakespeare took few lines to describe Hamlet before his tragedy. Hamlet was studying in the Wittenberg University that was located in France. Hamlet was a very intelligent person, he knew literature, art, he wrote poems, and he knew the rules of the stage actions. Also, like a real man in his time, Hamlet knew how to fight with the sword. Hamlet was thirty years old, even though he was old enough to know about life, it did not seem that he actually did. He had to learn about life and people in an unfavorable way. Everything happened after his Father’s death. People that were not supposed to die- died. What made Hamlet change was a finally understanding of what kind of people were around him all the