beyond our direct control. Death, apart from birth, is one of those instances where humans are left with no control over such random, spontaneous events. Perhaps its ineluctability, the fact that we cannot undo a death, or ever regain that person, or replay the day of the death to try to change it, is what causes feelings of grief and sadness in human beings. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet begins to ponder and consider the meaning of life in the wake of his father’s death. He ponders on the spiritual
corruption of Denmark lead to death and insanity but also the physical decay of the kingdom and the people within it. **** Hamlet displays physical decay by not only contemplating physical aspects associated with death but rather his deterioration as well. Ophelia tells Polonius that Hamlet “doubts all fouled, and down-gyved to his ankles, pale as his shirt, his knees knocking eachother. And with a look so pitiful in purport. As if he has been loosed out of hell” (2.1.88-93) Hamlet acts like someone that
something remarkable behind when the death arrives. No what how much we want to avoid. We, all are going to be end up being nothing but a piece of bones lying in the dirt hole in nature. Eventually the nature would end up taking over our body, which the nature decomposes us into the soil. William Shakespeare decided to portray the skull of Yorick held by Hamlet in Hamlet by using a symbolism method since the skull may suggest that it represents the cycle from life to death that we face everyday, but on
mourning son, Hamlet. However, when Hamlet confronted her about her immediate marriage with Claudius, she found out that it devastated Hamlet. As a result, she feel responsible for her son’s issues. Towards the end of the play in act VI, she become the mother figure by sacrificing herself as she intentionally drinks the poison to save her son. Yorick’s skull plays a vital symbol in the play. Although Hamlet has often laments life’s uncertainty, he finds represented in the skull at death is certain
Death is a concept that not many are able to openly face. It is a taboo that humans fear. It’s often pondered how death can be accept when the question of why humans are on this earth to begin with cannot be answered. Many people muddle through time trying to find purpose in their being. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet allows depression and anger to overcast him as he attempts to sort through the confusion that his father’s death has caused him. In David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is widely known as an Elizabethan revenge tragedy, however beneath the surface of this title is a transcendent play exploring universally primordial concepts of the human condition. Hamlet continues to challenge audiences within the modern milieu through a weighted commentary on the ubiquitous facets of existence and survival whilst under the insidious forces of corruption and morality manipulation. Hamlet allows us to foster an understanding through the study of Renaissance
In perusing Shakespeare’s dramatic play Hamlet and his portrayal of the degradation of human nature, my personal response has been shaped by Shakespeare’s thorough examination of the human condition. In particular, the development of the protagonist’s response to an unimaginable tragedy; his moral dilemma and honourable conscience in a depraved society, and self-exploration and pursuit of the significance of existence led me to believe that Hamlet renders complete reliance on fate as the only resolution