Hamlet’s Character by
Shakespeare
Keywords: Successor, Royal family, Complicated
Hamlet’s
character is one of the most complicated characters in the play. He is prince
and also the successor of the state. Sometimes he thinks one thing and acts
differently. He comes back from the university to attend his father’s funeral
ceremonies while he had to see his mother’s marriage on the occasion.
In
that hour of grief the person he could trust more was his mother. She was standing
on the opposite side with his uncle in wedding. He has been exchanging love
feelings through his letters and gifts to Ophelia. She decides to return back
gifts, love tokens and letters to him. Ophelia’s father and brother advise her
to be disconnected with Hamlet and she accepts it without any hesitation or any
objection. Readers or audience are not told about their views before but after
king’s death. They forbid Ophelia when Hamlet needed her positive response.
Ophelia
admires him that as he is thoughtful, reflective and philosophical. They didn’t
talk about before that Ophelia should be alert and keep distance from Hamlet.
It seems as all his relations were strengthened due to his father, king Hamlet.
King Claudius could be alert from prince hamlet for safety purpose. It seems strange
when other close relations shirk eyes and ignore him.
Hamlet
exclaims that he wishes he could die, that he could evaporate and cease to
exist. He wishes bitterly that God had not made suicide a sin. Anguished, he
laments his father’s death and his mother’s hasty marriage to his uncle. He
remembers how deeply in love his parents seemed, and he curses the thought that
now, not yet two month after his father’s death, his mother has married his
father’s far inferior brother.
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