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“A Discussion of Hamlet's Challenges”

The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a very interesting play about a man with problems that run through his family and he has to figure out a way to fix what is going wrong. The way that he has to figure out what is wrong is by acting mad and getting revenge on the person who killed his father. The first thing that happens in this story is we find out that old King Hamlet is killed by his brother Claudius. After this we are told Hamlet's mother Gertrude marries not long after King Hamlet's death to his brother Claudius. As we are first introduced to the story we find out that now King Hamlet has to live in purgatory because he was killed by his own brother. When Hamlet and his father finally …show more content…

The reason why Hamlet is so agitated about this problem is that he thinks that his mother should have mourned over the death of her husband longer than she did. Another reason why Hamlet has a problem with his mother getting married so quickly is because he thinks that his mother may be apart of how his father died. The first time we meet Hamlet we get to see how much Hamlet is still mourning over the death of his father by the way he dresses is all white and he is as white as a sheet. With seeing how Hamlet and his mother both dealt with the death of King Hamlet in different ways. As Hamlet starts to talk in his soliloquy we get to see how alone Hamlet actually feels. The way that we see this is explains how alone he feels because he can't tell his mother how he really feel because he is afraid of hurting his mother. We can see how Hamlet is afraid of hurting his mother because when he wanted to insult his Uncle Claudius he did not because he knew that Gertrude would defend him. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare Hamlet stated, “A little month; or ere those shoes were old; With which she followed my poor father's body; Like Niobe, all tears; — why she, even she, — O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer,” (Act 1 Scene 2 Lines 149-153) The reason why this is …show more content…

The reason why this is important in the play is because here is where Hamlet has to consider his conscience of either wanting to kill his uncle of not wanting to kill his uncle for his father. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare he stated, “Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab,”(Act 2 Scene 2 Lines 571-575) This is important in the play because here we get to see both sides of Hamlet fighting each other. By this it means that hamlet wants to kill his uncle for killing his father but on the other hand he does not because he is afraid of what will happen if he is killed. This is such a worry to Hamlet because the reason why Hamlet will not kill himself is because the gods say that it is a sin if someone kills themselves. Another way that we see the controversy that is going on in Hamlet is by the way he will always want to do something but then he doesn’t do it because he is afraid of what will happen to him. Another way that we see this is because in this act Hamlet stated how people are starting to procrastinate the things that they do so that they do not have to do it. The reason why Hamlet does not like this

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