Essays on Hamlet

Since Hamlet was published in 1603, there have been innumerable critiques of Hamlet. Being one of the most vaunted plays ever published in the English language, Hamlet has been covered ad nauseum. I will proffer a deviating perspective by analyzing Hamlet from the perspective of...

As a result of my study of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”, there is no doubt in my mind that Hamlet possesses many strengths that I admire, such as his intelligence, nobility, wit, loyalty and also his bravery. However, throughout the course of the play his flaws...

Ophelia’s character in Hamlet has been talked about by many critics, with some questioning the requirement of her role. While she is undoubtedly the lesser character in comparison to Gertrude, Claudius, or even Hamlet, her ultimate insanity and death offers an intrigue to some critics....

An anti-hero is the protagonist of a story that lacks heroic characteristics, they have some good qualities as well as some bad qualities. On the other hand, a tragic hero is, as described by Aristotle, “a person who must evoke a sense of pity and...

Hamlet is a tragic hero because he has classically “noble” motivations to punish the man who murdered his father, and in the end of the story his situation has become so ridiculous that the only way to end the story would be to end his...

The human condition of melancholia remains consistent throughout history, and the presentation of mental illness remains a regular theme in literature. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ (1609) is an exploration of the complexities of a human mind breached by loss, and an exposé of human melancholia. Sylvia Plath’s...

Hamlet is a play written by none other than William Shakespeare. In this play, Hamlet plots revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who murdered his father to take the throne as the king of Denmark and married his mother. Driven by revenge and his inner complexity,...

In the play, “Hamlet” Shakespeare uses madness as a theme that is at the center of the conflict. The theme is used in the entire play, which is shown through the actions of some characters. Madness can be defined as a mental illness or a...

In the genre-defining play Hamlet, William Shakespeare creates a complex, and at times ludicrous representation of madness and revenge. One thing that is noticeable in the play is that madness spreads like a disease and affects the actions of all the characters, similar to the...

Madness is a theme shown in many different literary works as it explores the limitations and expectations of human nature. In the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare, real and feigned madness results in characters such as Hamlet and Ophelia to lose their rationality and...