Tight And Loyalty In Hamlet By William Shakespeare

If poetry is supposed to teach through delight and delight through teaching as Sir Philip Sydney claims, shouldn't there be some aspect of light in poetry: of goodness? It seems there should be. In order to rightly delight in something there has to be a good in which to delight. In poetry and plays, therefore, there should be a good in which the audience can delight, but when reading Hamlet by that greatest of masters, William Shakespeare, one might feel as though it was all dark with no relief. It is full to bursting with death and conniving. It is hard to see any good through the veil of blood and treachery. From the very first time that one sees him, Hamlet seems to be depressed and heavily morose. There appears to be so much evil in his life. His father has recently died, and his mother, Gertrude, without seeming even to take time to mourn, has married Hamlet's uncle. This unfaithfulness heaped upon tragedy has pushed Hamlet toward the breaking point. This breaking point seems to manifest its
He confronts her lack of virtue and verbally berates her for her infidelity and deceit, “Such an act/ That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,/ Calls virtue hypocrite…”4 Hamlet is shamed by his mother's shame, and their family's shame is a lacking of virtue. All that Hamlet cares about now is his sense of nobility, and his mother's actions have made any virtue that their family had become hypocritical. He later compares her lack of virtue to wax that when subjected to the least amount of heat melts and no longer holds its integrity. Even after this brutal tirade against his mother, Hamlet is willing to extend a chance for repentance. He tells her that his sense of what is right caused him to have to say this, but then encourages her to attain virtue. Even if she does not have much of it, act as though she does so that she might grow in