Throughout the entirety of Hamlet the ghost of King Hamlet is an entity which seems to elude both the reader and Hamlet himself. Many readers ponder the question of whether or not the ghost is a figment of Hamlet’s imagination or if Shakespeare intended the ghost to be an actual entity in the play that does not merely dwell in the mind of Hamlet. Various sources of evidence within the play itself appear at a first glance to support the idea that because the ghost only speaks to Hamlet that he has
His “Niche-morality” exposes why men commit suicide; men's incapability to react to situations leads them to find their life as an insignificant existence towards the world. Hamlet questions if he is a coward towards his struggle to kill Claudius (2.2.594-8). In spite of his life crisis, Hamlet realized how painful he felt when considering death over his master plan. Evidently, Hamlet's emotional dysfunction impales his morality with guilt and sorrow, which explains why he created the Dumb Show; he
him go outside his normal demeanor. Then, there “violent,” and “desperate undertakings,” as in Hamlet not acting as himself has caused him to become violent and do things that do not behoove him, especially as a Prince. Furthering one this idea of madness, “passion…does afflict out nature,” this supposed love for Ophelia, has some how change Hamlet from his natural state into something that is not natural or reminiscent of Hamlet the man they he seems to recall. From a small story that Polonuis was
page. Not only this, but in his work Romeo and Juliet he even states exactly what is going to happen in the play as a part of his prologue. Because he does things like this, he forces his readers to think less about the plot, and focus more on the why, as well as action versus reaction. Not only does Shakespeare use this tool, he also uses a few more, one major one is his allusions to things that were happening at the time period. A famous example of this is in the work A Midsummer Nights Dream where