A properly organized, working government acting as a mask for the corrupt underbelly – behind this lays the true rot of Denmark. In the state of Denmark much is wrong. The wrongness in the state is represented throughout the play in a variety of ways. One of the most incursive thematic displays of rottenness comes ...
“As it doth well appear unto our state – /But to recover of us, by strong hand…” (1,I, 101-102). Horatio, Prince Hamlet’s close friend, foreshadows a crucial theme in Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the craving of vengeance. The text reveals that the need for revenge creates a throttlehold on the authentic emotions, thoughts, and ...
A common theme in literature is the classic war between a passion and responsibility. In a literary work, the main character often faces the demands of a passion, but deals with contemplation due to a conflict with his/her own responsibilities. In the play Hamlet, Hamlet grapples with this theme after the murder of his father. ...
Throughout the entire plot of Hamlet, the young prince remains angry at his mother, mainly because she married her previous husband’s brother. The younger Hamlet gives his mother plenty of grief throughout the play because he feels she was finished grieving over her husband’s death far too quickly. King Claudius even calls Hamlet out on ...
William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet is the protagonist of the work, and the play outlines the trials and tribulations that Hamlet must endure while trying to uncover the truth surrounding his father’s death. It is also a story of revenge-the revenge that Hamlet seeks to inflict on ...
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Gertrude commits the moral transgression of marrying Claudius, her late husband’s brother, shortly after the King of Denmark’s death. Numerous references to her sin are made, and she is punished for it in the end with death. Hamlet laments Gertrude’s hasty marriage to Claudius and considers Gertrude to have had base ...