Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
Harmlet - College Essay

Harmlet

Hamlet

One of the most unique things about the play Hamlet (with Hamlet playing the main character) is the way relationships between the main and lesser characters have not changed from Shakespeare's time period in which he wrote this play to the modern dilemmas of today. The character Hamlet relates through individualism of self to others in the play and Shakespeare uses this confusion of self and nature thus assuring many types of readers who can relate to his Hamlet characterization.

Hamlet portrays himself with all his human flaws, but it is this humanity that makes him distinctive from everyone else in the story. In addition, all of Hamlet's waking hours are preoccupied with his ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

humor to add more irony to the already tragic events of the play. Pause for thought is in the types of conflict that play a major part in the play and the relationships between Hamlet and the two people who have been closest to him; being Ophelia and the ghost. Hamlet cannot share his strong feelings and emotions with his mother or his girlfriend and while his mother is literally sleeping with the enemy, Ophelia has chosen the side of Claudius because of her father Polonius. It is especially difficult for Hamlet to talk to Ophelia. The only other woman in his life, Gertrude, has betrayed his father by marrying Claudius. Hamlet may be obsessed with the idea that all women are evil, yet he really does love Ophelia because when he finds out Ophelia has died he cries out, I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.(Act V, Scene 1) The ghost provides Hamlet with a dilemma. In Shakespeare's plays supernatural characters are not ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.


Already a member? Login

It is intriguing that both Claudius and Hamlet have killed fathers. It is interesting to see how these two completely different characters deal with the same problem in different ways. Other interesting parallels I found are the numerous deaths by poison. Claudius murdered Hamlet's father with poison. In the final act the queen is the first to be poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup and then the poisoned tip of Laertes' sword wounds Hamlet. When they change swords Hamlet gets the upper hand and Laertes is poisoned. After the queen dies Laertes explains everything to Hamlet before he dies and Hamlet then kills Claudius before dying himself. It is ironic that as Claudius is poisoned ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library.
Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports,
and research papers in 2 minutes or less.


CITE THIS PAGE:

Harmlet. (2012, December 8). Retrieved December 23, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Harmlet/102140
"Harmlet." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 8 Dec. 2012. Web. 23 Dec. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Harmlet/102140>
"Harmlet." Essayworld.com. December 8, 2012. Accessed December 23, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Harmlet/102140.
"Harmlet." Essayworld.com. December 8, 2012. Accessed December 23, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Harmlet/102140.
JOIN NOW
Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays


PAPER DETAILS
Added: 12/8/2012 12:29:03 PM
Submitted By: thaihien
Category: Shakespeare
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1827
Pages: 7

Save | Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS
Save and find your favorite essays easier

SIMILAR ESSAYS
» To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
» Gods Of Ancient Egypt
» The Sociological Perspective
» Xenon
» Teenagers and Drug Use
» Stephen Kings's The Stand
» Heavy Weather At American Airli...
» Crime
» The Life of Elizabeth I
» Hawthorne Effects On Factory W
Copyright | Cancel | Contact Us

Copyright © 2024 Essayworld. All rights reserved