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Free Essay Submitted by bignerds on 06/28/2008 08:11 PM
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Hamlet- A Tragic Hero Complete With Faults
None of Shakespeare's tragic heroes have invoked so much critical analysis as Hamlet has. His complex character has remained an enigma to numerous historians and a consensus has not been reached. Many criticisms agree with Goethe when he states that the play is representative of
"the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it - an oak tree planted in a costly jar." The metaphor can identify the task as the tree and Hamlet as the jar. Hamlet is unfit for the task of revenge
for his father's death because of the grieving period he is engulfed in at the time the task is laid upon him, his propensity to procrastinate or analyze too much, and his lack of determination and overall demeanor. Considering the
logic presented above, Hamlet's actions are not
unreasonable.
At the time of King Hamlet's death, the kingdom was forlorn, but no one's grief was more inexorable than that of Hamlet's. The Queen offers Prince Hamlet the following
advice, "Do not forever let thy valied lids seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st tis common: all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity."
Hamlet, however, cannot seem to relinquish his grief. Hamlet displays many traits of melancholy and is extremely sad over the death of his father and hasty remarriage of his
mother. Hamlet speaks of his own state, "O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." The ghost of his dead father visits Hamlet
with a final wish, "If you ever loved your father...revenge his most foul and unnatural murder." The ghost's demand thrusts upon Hamlet a duty to take extreme action. Unfortunately the Prince's mind is unstable from grief, and
the ghost's command is almost more than he is able to bear. While he is at first full of fire to exact revenge, Hamlet quickly realizes the heavy burden of the duty given to him
and...
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