TOPIC: One of the elements that can be compared in the plays “Hamlet”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Agamemnon” is hamartia. THESIS STATEMENT: One of the elements that can be compared in the plays “Hamlet”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Agamemnon” is hamartia. We will understand how hamartia ties the plots together; analyse and compare. Hamlet, Prufrock, and Agamemnon’s roles in each of the plays; and evaluate how their personalities affect the outcome of their lives and
One of William Shakespeare’s most famous and perhaps most convoluted plays is Hamlet. In this tragedy, Hamlet, the main character, is mourning the unexpected death of his father, Old Hamlet. During this melancholy time in the kingdom, Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, marries her deceased husband’s brother, Claudius. Naturally, in Hamlet’s frazzled state of mind, chaos ensues. Both Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli beautifully portrayed this pandemonium. Despite this one of these movies can be considered
In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, there are several father-son relationships that Shakespeare uses to express the characters personality, values, and insight of life. These relationships involve love, which is a key theme in Hamlet. This love can be encountered under forms like passion, platonic love, but not excluding a more heartfelt and respectful love between a father and his son. In the play the characters Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras each have a deep relationship with their individual fathers
opportunity to tell the audience specific pieces of information that aren’t disclosed in normal conversation. In Hamlet, Shakespeare’s main character speaks in seven soliloquies, which advance the plot. It reveals Hamlet’s inner thoughts to the audience and sets the atmosphere in the play. The first soliloquy that Hamlet delivers serves the audience as an insight to him as a character. Hamlet reflects and depicts his position; tells of his father’s death and his mother’s quick remarriage.
4. William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, can be considered a metafiction as the author uses not only the play within the play to act as a commentary on entertainment not being intended for every audience member, that plays and other forms of drama are driven towards a specific audience, but also Hamlet himself to show the differentiation in styles of acting and interpretation of plays. Shakespeare expresses this concept with the play within his play and Polonius’s reaction to the players soliloquy
Prufrock and Hamlet are similar in their notable impotence but are different in that while Prufrock is submissive and pessimistic to his inability to act, Hamlet is inherently an active person, but his delirium turns him into ostentatious impotency; Meursault, on the other hand, is merely inert in his thoughts. Prufrock’s impotence is largely due to his submissive nature. In the poem, Prufrock summarizes his own nature in a concise phrase, “And in short, I was afraid (Elliot 3.86)”. From the poem
Hamlet vs. Hamlet When I chose to watch two versions of Hamlet by William Shakespeare I had no idea I would enjoy the notorious tragedy as much as I did. The pure art and skill put into both Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet and the Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet astounded me. The two adaptations were beautiful yet traditional, and made a very known and recognized story feel fresh and new again. However, as tragically beautiful as the duo were there was one distinct difference that really separated the two
This essay serves as a way to understand the intertextual relationship between Hamlet and Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, by showing readers the difference between revenge and retribution, as well as what prompts each of these two ideas, the influence of a father figure (or lack thereof) on a son’s moral compass, and the introspection of Hamlet and the Creature in what they are and who they become on their journeys of revenge. On the surface, the ideas of revenge and retribution are one
Hamlet is set in the middle ages of the 14th and 15th century in the royal palace in Elsinore, Denmark. Throughout the play, Hamlet makes it clear that he feigned madness in order to confuse the king and his attendants. After the ghost tells Hamlet that someone murdered his father, his plan was to fake madness in order to get revenge on the murderer. Hamlet claims that “How strange or odd some'er I bear myself (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on) (1.5.190-192)
life? These are the questions one must consider when dealing with justifying revenge. That is exactly what Hamlet, the main character of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, has to think through. He knows of his father’s death, and believes it to be at the hands of his Uncle and father-in-law Claudius, the new king. He thinks this because of what he learned from the ghost of his father, King Hamlet, and because of various occurrences that he has witnessed Claudius perform that would be synonymous with that