Hamlet Rhetorical Analysis

In Hamlet’s soliloquy in act IV scene iv, he brings up the question of “what is a man?” Hamlet does this while looking upon the over powering army that is lead by Fortinbras. His army was passing through Denmark to fight over an insignificant piece of land in Poland. Hamlet then thinks about his lack of action with his mission to kill Claudius. While he is seeing this massive army marching, going to war over something so insignificant he realizes that he must try to make his “thoughts bloody” (4.4.64). In this soliloquy, we learn that through Hamlet’s inaction he sees himself no better than a beastly animal where he should see himself as a man that takes action into his own hands which, makes him as the same level as the gods.

What is important to know is that Hamlet and Laertes, throughout the text do not have a friendly relationship and the admiration for Laertes by Hamlet is nothing but an irony and sarcasm. As an audience to the play, one know that Laertes has been brainwashed into believing that Hamlet is his enemy, even when that is not the case at all; the enemy of the Danes throughout the text is the King, Claudius. He is responsible for numerous deaths and agony in the country because he is responsible for killing fathers to Laertes and Hamlet. Despite this, Claudius still manages to create a wall between Hamlet and Laertes, even though the audience expects them to

I Hamlet's second soliloquy, we face a determined Hamlet who is craving revenge for his father. “Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat/ In this distracted globe. Remember thee!” Hamlet feels sorry for his father who was unable to repent of his sins and is therefore condemned to a time in purgatory. He promises his father that in spite of his mental state (he is distracted, confused and shocked) he will avenge his death. He holds him in the highest regards because he sees his father as a role model. “Yea, from the table of my memory/ I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,”. He’ll erase all prior Knowledge and experience and leave only his father’s “commandment”. He will engrave it in the front of his mind to show his

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The author Janne Teller once stated in her novel Nothing that; “The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning.” This statement directly reflects the central criticism in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The death of a king, and the necessity for revenge introduces many complex themes throughout the play as a whole. One of the most prevalent, the nature of death.

In Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare portraits the transition from a young mindset to a more mature one in Hamlets "My thoughts be bloody" soliloquy. (iv.iv 34-69) Shakespeare uses Hamlet to show us the role maturity plays in the human decision making process. The soliloquy can be seen as a call to action, Hamlet shifts from inaction to action and stops making excuses. He was always intelligent but didn’t have the ability to make decisions in proper time. He over thought and frustrated himself with things he had the ability to change. Hamlet also couldn’t accept that he was the biggest barrier in his revenge for his father’s death. In this soliloquy, Hamlet started seeing things from different perspectives, it helped him grow

There are various ways in which an author can target their audience, though in the Elizabethan Era one might do so differently than in present day. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet delivers a speech in which all those who watched could relate to. Before Hamlet was exiled to England he encountered the captain of Norway’s army and learned of their plan to attack a small patch of Poland’s land. The land was worth nothing to neither Norway or Poland yet both took up arms to obtain the land for it would cost them their pride to lose it. Hamlet then proceeds to recite his soliloquy in which the audience can relate to the situation at hand. It also advances the plot and excites the audience with Hamlets noticeable turn

His mother, Gertrude, marries Claudius only a short time after his Father dies and insults Hamlet’s grief with her speed. I think that Hamlet had a good relationship with his mother before this but struggled with their relationship after. You can see it throughout the play. The scene that takes place in her bedchambers is an example. He wants her to see what she has done and realize her faults but I think ultimately wants no harm to be done to her. She cares mostly for herself and the other part of her I think just does not understand that she is hurting Hamlet.

Hamlet treats his mother Gertrude harshly through this play. In the beginning, Hamlet was frustrated and deep in sadness because of the death of his father and the soon wedding of his mother worsened his condition. Hamlet expresses disgust at his mother's relationship with his uncle “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (1.2.146) he means that his mother is frailty as all other women could not live without a man as they depend on the man. His disgust turns to anger when he realizes that Claudius killed his father to take his crown and his wife. So he blames his mother for this marriage “O shame! Where is thy blush? Rebellious hell, / If thou canst mutine in a matron’s bones, / To flaming youth let virtue be as wax” (3.4.82-84) he supposed that she is married Claudius only for sex and not because he reminds her his father “Married with my uncle, My father’s brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules”

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before collaborating within the Shakespeare competition of the STEM academy in Kaimuki high faculty, we, as a class, needed to provide you with a script for our play. First, we got here up with what act and scenes that we need to act on and decided on the subject matter based on what scenes we chose. The subject matter that we chose for our play was a excessive college homecoming dance. The play consisted of Hamlet stabbing Polonius, King Claudius and Queen Gertrude dancing along side random players, Ophelia going mad and taking the crown from Queen Gertrude, the janitor rejecting a Kaimuki excessive school teacher, and anyone dancing on the stop to a Shakira song. We did now not get hold of a grade for finishing this script; however, our trainer

“To be or not to be-” still one of the greatest quotes today. Before even reading, or knowing of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, odds are you had heard the phrase before. But, what does this quote mean? What this quote showcases is a major theme to come up again and again throughout this play, seen with Hamlet through his most inner thoughts. These themes occur again with Claudius and Laertes nearing the end of the play. What these characters, and that quote, show is that preoccupation with death is a major theme in the play Hamlet, as it is seen constantly within Hamlet, Claudius, and Laertes, as well as nearly in every other single character.

Ultimately, Hamlet does feel Gertrude betrayed both his father and himself. Hamlet's anger is so intense, he wishes to kill Gertrude, but he cannot, for the ghost specifically tells Hamlet not to hurt his mother, "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven / And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge / To prick and sting her" (Hamlet, I, v, 92-95). He can only attack her with hurtful words that allude to her role as women.

Throughout the story, it is noticeable that Hamlet feels betrayed by Gertrude, for marrying Claudius, making it the reason why Hamlet verbally abuses her. Hamlet is seen poking fun at Gertrude, for he believes his mother is the person at fault, therefore Hamlet is constantly telling her what she should do, and how to

This quotation, Part of Hamlet’s first important soliloquy, occurs in Act I, scene ii. Hamlet says this after enduring an unpleasant conversation with Claudius and Gertrude. He is being asked by his mother and stepfather not to return to his studies at Wittenberg but to remain in Denmark, going against his wishes. Here, Hamlet for the first time contemplates suicide (desiring his flesh to “melt,” and wishing that God had not made “self-slaughter” a sin), saying that the world is “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” In other words, suicide seems like a desirable alternative to life in a painful world, but Hamlet feels that the option of suicide is closed to him because it is forbidden by religion. This part is important because in a way it foreshadows (makes a parallel) with his “To be or not to be” soliloquy. Both soliloquies contemplate suicide and argue that it would be better to leave the world instead of endure the pains. In both cases he finds suicide to not be the best option. Hamlet then goes on to describe the causes of his pain, specifically his intense disgust at his mother’s marriage to Claudius. He describes the haste of their marriage, noting that the shoes his mother wore to his father’s funeral were not worn out before her marriage to Claudius. Hamlet then compares Claudius to his a Father, saying that his father was a saint while Claudius is a beast.