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Hamlet, Prince of
Denmark is a very popular tragedy written by
William Shakespeare. In this
play,
Shakespeare portrayed a prince with a quick, sharp
mind of considerable penetration, strong
sense
of
responsibility,
while,
at
the
same
time,
he
has
a
suspicious
and
indecisive
character.
Hamlet found his uncle murdered is
father, and decided to avenge his father's death.
But when he
got the chance, he gave up.
In the end, he died with his uncle, mother and his
lover
’
s brother.
As a main character in the play, Hamlet
is a princess of Denmark, and studied in the
school of
the Wittenberg. His thoughts,
behaviors fully displayed the characteristics of
the humanism.
He yearned to have a good relationship
with family members, friends. And he is passionate
in
love. As he wrote in the letter
which he sent to Ophelia,
‘
Doubt thou the stars are
fire; Doubt that
the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I
love.
’
But unfortunately,
his uncle
murdered his father for the
kingship, and his mother married his uncle within
a month after his
father
’
s death.
His friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betrayed
him for pleasing the king and
the
queen.
And
also
his
beloved
girl
sounded
him
out
about
the
reason
why
he
is
mad.
These
realities broke his beautiful
imaginations of the world.
He has a complex personality. Firstly,
he is smart but indecisive. He wrote a letter to
the king of
England in stead of the
letter which was said he should be killed at once
for the interest of the
Denmark and
England. He has planed a play which showed the
reasons of his father
’
s
death to the
king and his mother, and
told Horatio observe the expression of his uncle.
He is smart but when he
had the chance
to kill his uncle, he gave up because he thinks if
he killed his uncle when his uncle
is
praying, his uncle will go to the Heaven after he
is dead but his poor father can only stay in the
Hell. Finally, his hesitation leads to
the deaths of his, mother, uncle and Laertes.
Secondly, he is
kind but sometimes
cold-blooded. He is filial. When he heard that his
father was murdered by his
uncle, he
decided to kill his uncle. And even his mother did
an incestuous thing which is married
his uncle, Hamlet is still filial to
his mother, he listened his
mother
’
s will to stay in the
Denmark.
But Hamlet is also cold-
blooded. He ignored the death of Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern who are
his classmates in
University. He killed Polonius by mistake, but he
didn
’
t feel regret and put
the
died
body
in
a
lobby
just
anyhow.
He
even
cheated
his
beloved
girl
that
he
is
mad
and
cruel
hearted.
Hamlet
has a strong sense of social responsibility. When
he found that his father was murdered
by his uncle, he decided to avenge his
father's death. It is not only because his father
is a good
king but also because his
uncle is scheming and many officials will
sacrifice principle for profit.
He
thought about only his misfortune but also the
social misfortune. The society was in chaos and
confusion. Even Hamlet faced the strong
feudal forces; he bravely fought against the
feudal forces.
But
Hamlet
fought
against
the
forces
alone
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
of
the
play,
so
it
is
impossible for him to
win. The conflict between Hamlet and Claudius is
the biggest conflict in the
play, and
it represents the conflict between the humanism
and feudalism, the conflict between the
humanist ideals and the real gloomy
society.
Hamlet
’
s views
sometimes are rather extreme. The murder made him
think that the society is so
gloomy and
he neglected the other good things in the world.
He said some bad words to Ophelia,
for
example,
‘
for the power of
beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it
is a bawd than
the force of honesty can
translate beauty into his
likeness.
’
He also told
Ophelia get to a nunnery.
Hamlet also
abused his mother with some bad words. Even though
his mother married his uncle
and forgot
the true his father
’
s true
love, she loves Hamlet truly. She was really happy
when she
saw his son was win in the
battle that she drunk the water with powerful
poison and died in the
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