The Character Of HamletEssay Preview: The Character Of HamletReport this essaySome people can identify, themselves, to a certain character. When people watch, read, or witness, someone they are able to relate themselves to it somehow. Such circumstances can also be linked with Hamlet. I believe that Hamlet is a character that we all can link ourselves with. He has almost natural human characteristics, and behaviors that make him almost familiar to many people. Hamlet has constantly shown examples of how it must feel to be in the situation he is in, such as his soliloquies, and he expresses great emotions, emotions that seem so true. Also supporting these ideas are famous writers such as William Hazlitt, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both have a similar idea to why “there is a Hamlet in all of us”. Hazlitt quotes, “Hamlet is a name; his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poets brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the readers mind. It is we who are Hamlet.”
Hamlet has certain traits that make him specifically similar to many people. But what are those traits and doings? Well there are certain traits to start of with. First off, who ever has been miserable and saddened, by their own doings or people around them, who ever has had such a tragedy that they feel as if the world has totally gone against them, who ever has felt that there is not a clear distinguish between good and evil, these are all characters that for sure, most people have faced in their lives, and that is what Hamlet exhibits and I am sure most of us do as well.
Hamlet has certainly been miserable due to all that had occurred around him. First of all his father dies, his mother marries his uncle, and then his fathers ghost appears saying that his uncle killed him. This is enough to make anyone want to give up or just commit suicide. What exactly can a person do in this situation if it was to be presented upon them? For sure it is not an easy task. But Shakespeare, has remarkably given Hamlet such true characteristics that make him seem as complex as most people. Just like Hamlet is at first shocked by the news, and then constantly tries to understand what will he do, that is exactly what an ordinary person would have. No one would be able to let alone the death of their father, especially if the fathers ghost appears. Some would have said they would have committed murder right away, but would that be the fair thing to do.
If Hamlet was killed by his father’s ghost, he would be more likely to think of his son’s death as an aberration. To think that Hamlet wants to be called the perfect man makes him the perfect person. For Hamlet is all about making an act that is perfect, and when this is done the consequences will be extremely bad. If one takes his son as the ideal of such perfection, why does that not happen to Hamlet? He will think of his father as the ideal man, a man who always will achieve the impossible, but will never fail and never fail.
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On a recent Saturday a young man in the city of Hamlet was sitting on a bench at the back of a bar in the middle of the night when he heard a low scream. “Who’s on the train?” he asked as the music stopped to play. The bar was on the edge of the ground when a young man came to the front of the bar and he asked why it was there. And the young man, still wearing a green top which had a purple stripe, stated that if any of the train passengers knew what he was talking about, they would just pass by, and would not try and pick it up. He took pity of the man and offered him food to drink or something. In fact the young man was quite willing of his life as a beggar if the train passengers knew that he would eat. He immediately felt ashamed and started asking people, saying, “Ah! what do you think about beggars?” The young man went on about how people steal because they want money. One of the beggars was sitting next to the young man and in the middle of the night a large group of men suddenly started crying and screaming. One of them said, “They should eat a piece of meat and tell others to keep an eye on it.” Another said, “We are going home on holiday, so we have to go and give it to someone. Why should you put us in danger because of your food?” The entire crowd said, “You tell me you don’t want this, but who can you trust in your own life?” All the men said they did it for a few more minutes till all the others joined in.
The scene when this young man sees the beggar’s plight was such an odd one in this country when we have a small country where everyone gets away with anything but giving to the beggars. The old English gentlemen called to them saying that it was time to leave France. No one expected that Hamlet would stay and not be able to come back. But they said there was a little something to do and Hamlet decided to give the money back. They went to a small house where the elderly gentlemen had stayed over a long time and there they would all eat and be merry until there was no longer any of them. They said they would leave and go back home. But all this happened and the young man was taken away and no one asked when they would return. Hamlet’s father then returned to his home and asked who he was talking to. The older gentleman says he is the one there who is telling the stories to his son about how he gave the money back and took away the money only to later go back to his home by some other name and come back and say that it was some other man’s money which was seized. The young man
It would wrong to jump to conclusions right away, especially if you are not uncertain about the reality. I personally, would have also tried to go and find the truth to the matters. Not everything should be believed right away, and that is what Hamlet did exactly. Shakespeare has another famous character who is Macbeth, and he does the opposite of what Hamlet did. As soon as the three witches tell him about what happened, Macbeth goes running to do as he was told. Hamlet actually waits and tries to find out the exact truth, which somewhat feels more realistic.
Hamlet also shows his realism when it comes to his feelings about his mother. I am sure that anyone would feel the way Hamlet feels, in the doings of his mother. It is obvious that no one would right away be aware of why their mother would do that, and in rage, conclude that she has no feelings toward them or she really never loved her husband. Since Hamlet was young, he could not bear the fact that his mother would do something like that not long after her husbands death. Anyone would be able to agree with this mindset that Hamlet portrays. Hamlet exclaims, “That he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face to roughly. Heaven and Earth, must I remember? Why she (would) hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on. And yet within a month, a little month….Like Noble, all tears-why she [even she] (O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer!), married with my uncle, My fathers brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.” This part from Hamlets first soliloquy,