Familial Separation In Hamlet

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is laden with tragedy from the start, and this adversity is reflected in the title character. Being informed of his father’s murder and the appalling circumstances surrounding the crime, Hamlet is given the emotionally taxing task of avenging his death. It is clear that having to complete this grim undertaking takes its toll on Hamlet emotionally. Beginning as a seemingly contemplative and sensitive character, we observe Hamlet grow increasingly depressed and deranged as the play wears on. Hamlet is so determined to make his father proud that he allows the job on hand to completely consume him. We realize that Hamlet has a tendency to mull and ponder excessively, which causes the notorious delays of action

Losing a loved one to tragedy, especially two most brutal and malicious tragedies as these, will torture the minds of any and all men. Terrifying thoughts, even carefully planned acts of revenge will plow themselves into your brain. It is how we react to these situations that can and will forever define that man, his life, and his actions. In these two stories, Hamlet's father and Matt Fowler's son are murdered with jealous motives of romance, ambition, betrayal and rage. Revenge captures the hearts of both characters, but in different forms. Hamlet sees his fathers ghost and is told if he ever loved his father he is to ?[revenge his foul and most unnatural

In the play Hamlet there are many themes that were brought to our attention; Madness, Revenge, Mortality, Religion, Incest, Family, and Death. In this essay we will be discussing two of these themes that we found intriguing, the two themes are Death, and Revenge.

Hamlet is undeniably an epic among all plays. Shakespeare’s command of storytelling and the meticulously sculpted layers of the play add to the sheer grandeur of the life of Hamlet and the multitude of forces acting against him. The complex dialogue, the magnificent story arches, and the archetypal themes are all essential to the understanding and enjoyment of Hamlet, but there is one particular subject matter that The Bard placed at the center of all the conflict and emotion of the play: grief. The Prince of Denmark’s burdened life after his father’s death is completely coerced by the tearing force of grief throughout his mental and emotional state of being. His purpose, his insanity, and ultimately his downfall stemmed from this encumbrance.

Hamlet claims that he is only acting crazy, but it seems more likely that he actually is. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, assumes that he has gone crazy because of his father’s unexpected death. She tries to bring in Hamlet’s friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to see if they can find the root of Hamlet’s mental issues and cheer up Hamlet. Gertrude, however, fails to realize the role she plays in causing Hamlet’s poor mental state. After the death of Hamlet’s father, Gertrude wastes no time in marrying the new king and maintaining her position as queen. She does not seem to notice the negative impact this has on Hamlet’s disposition. She could simply be pretending that she does not notice how her actions affect Hamlet, but more likely, she is more concerned about maintaining her status as queen than the mental state of her beloved son. Hamlet shows his true feelings about his mother when he says, “O God! A beast, that wants discourse of reason, / Would have mourn’d longer—married with my uncle, / My father’s brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules: within a month” (1.2.150-153). He, however, keeps the disgust he feels at his mother sleeping in “incestuous sheets” to

Furthermore, “Hamlet” portrays how the upset of order causes the gradual deterioration of a family. The causes of this familial disorder are King Hamlet’s murder, Gertrude’s brief mourning of her deceased husband and Claudius and Gertrude’s “o’erhasty marriage” (II.ii.57). Hamlet mourns the death of his father in a “conventional Elizabethan form”, whereas, Claudius and Gertrude celebrate their marriage (Kirsch). King Hamlet, the patriarch and the figure head of the family, is murdered creating an unstable family. Hamlet disapproves of how his mother was so quick to mourn the death of his father, and feels that her grief is marred by her sudden marriage to

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of art so prolific that many consider it as one of the best tragedies ever written in the history of literature, in which ideas and motifs of sickness and decay embed the entire plot of the story. Each unique character then conveys these ideas by the way they converse with other characters, their actions, and their use of figurative language. These create a unominous tone that is carried throughout the story, which helps the audience in fully grasping Hamlet’s truest emotions. These also help the reader know each character as well as to understand the how the figurative elements of the play translate to real life circumstances. From the start of the play, Shakespeare establishes a tone of uncertainty and

The “Need of Belonging” has distinctive attributes that an individual needs to fully develop in that area. These attributes include; “friendship, intimacy, affection, and love from work group, family, friends, romantic relationship” (McLeod para 11). In the play it is evident that Hamlet’s source of belonging has been taken away from him. From the death of his father, to the sudden marriage of his mother and uncle, and now the information that his uncle killed his father, it is evident that Hamlet does not feel as if he belongs within his family, which he states at the ending of the monologue, “I’m angry that my uncle has ulterior motives, that my mother is part of his schemes, that my father is buried six feet beneath. This so called family is an atrocity” (Line 27-28).

This poem represents the theme in act 1, scene 3 of Hamlet and act 1 of “Some Day”. The poem serves to illustrate the common theme of separation between two people. “We're two worlds, there's me, there's you”(5) and “one destruction sets us apart”(2) are lines in the poem that illustrate the theme of separation. In the play Someday on page 10 Anne introduces her long lost daughter grace to the play. She was forcefully taken from Anne’s arms when she was young. This is also the case in act 1 scene 3 of Hamlet. Ophelia, who is betrothed to prince Hamlet is told by both her father and brother that she should break her relationship with Hamlet and avoid

In addition to his mother, Gertrudes incestual betrayal to wed the brother of her late husband, Claudius- Who is later learned to be the cause of the old king's untimely death. The treacherous act induced by both his mother and Uncle-daddy triggers Hamlets misogynistic and ludicrous behavior that enroots the rest of the play. Poisoned with the deep grief, accompanied by his mother's recent actions, Hamlet declares

Throughout the play, Hamlet’s disdain for his mother marriage to his uncle, Claudius, is made apparent. It is because of this union, Hamlet believes that it is his responsibility to separate Claudius from his mother for her own good. Because Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, was killed his brother, Claudius, is now King and has married Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother. After a play which depicts the death of King

In Hamlet’s first soliloquy, Hamlet expresses the depths of his melancholy and his disgust at his mother’s marriage with Claudius after the death of his father. As a result, Hamlet condemns the marriage between his mother and uncle. He says Claudius is far inferior to his father and in anguish describes his mother, Queen Gertrude, as a lustful beast. The fact that his mother’s marriage to Claudius was so fast and to his father’s brother infuriates Hamlet. Moreover, Hamlet is already grieving over the fact that his father recently died, so the stress about his mother is enough to make him contemplate suicide.

Hamlets father was king married to Queen Gertrude but Hamlet had to return home to attend his funeral. He was a loving son; mourning, only to figure out his mother (the queen) had already married once more. The Queen’s new husband is King Claudius who is Hamlets uncle and the deceased King’s brother. This betrayal was like none other in Hamlet’s eyes. He knew right anyway from a feeling that Claudius was responsible for King Hamlet’s death. Hamlet even worried and sometimes assumed that his mother was part of the planning or even killing of his father. Returning home immediately became about getting revenge on the people that hurt his family and even in some cases that meant his mother. Hamlet was a smart man and very cunning but in the end it doesn’t work out for anyone.

The death of King Hamlet effected many individuals lives to the point where great changes were made. Especially in regards to his son, Hamlet, who took the death – murder- of his father personally in both mental and emotional ways. By doing so, Hamlet portrays and experiences the death and loss of his father by acting out in manners in which magnify his isolation and alienated actions. These would include excluding and distancing himself, turning on those closest, and taking on measures one would never do so when thinking rationally or clearly.

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the world’s most renowned plays, one which has stood the test of time over the course of 400 years, finding relevance even today. A complex and sophisticated work, Hamlet is a masterful weaving of the myriad of components that make up the human experience; it delicately touches upon such topics as death, romance, vengeance, and mania, among several others. Being so intricate and involuted, Hamlet has been interpreted in countless fashions since its conception, with each reader construing it through their own subjectivity. Some of the most popular and accredited methods of analyzing the work are the Traditional Revenge Tragedy, Existentialist, Psychoanalytic, Romantic, and Act of Mourning approaches.