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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Can Be Defined As A Revenge Tragedy. In
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Can Be Defined As A Revenge Tragedy. In |
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet can be defined as a revenge tragedy. In
Shakespeare’s tragedies the reader sees a noble, heroic central character who is destroyed
because a defect in his character either causes him to involve himself in circumstances
which overpower him, or makes him incapable of dealing with a destructive situation
caused by another character or by circumstances. The play ends with the death of the
central character. But before he dies, he achieves insights which make him a more
perceptive human being than he was when the play began. This central character,
Hamlet, shows his love directly and indirectly to the reader.
Hamlet is noble in birth and person, a prince of extraordinary intelligence: and, as
the action of the play proves, he is heroic. His defect (indecision, excessive imagination,
irrationality, madness, etc.) prevents him from seizing control of the world Claudius has
created. His death closes the play, but only after he experiences and expresses
illuminations about human life and death.
Hamlet begins after Hamlet’s father has died. This has casted an unwanted and
heavy cloud upon Hamlet’s soul. Throughout the play Hamlet learns that his father’s
death was no mistake, but it was Hamlet’s uncle’s plan to murder him. This, of course,
throws a much larger burden on Hamlet’s hands and the thirty year old prince becomes
insane. Hamlet then seeks revenge. A revenge tragedy is a bloody, violent play
dramatizing a detailed, bloodcurdling scheme to avenge some wickedness frequently the
murder of a close relative or loved one. The hero of a revenge tragedy does not cause the
situation which begins the play. The villain, on whom the hero will eventually take
vengeance, does.
Hamlet learned from the ghost of his father about the betrayal Claudius had
planned. Hamlet was informed of the presence of his father’s spirit by Horatio and
Marcellus. This ghost of Hamlet’s father appeared and only wished to speak to Hamlet
himself. Hamlet saw this spirit and replied by not caring what would happen to him if he
proceeded to speak with it. “Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be
they intents wicked or chari
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