Hamlet

Introduction:-

          Shakespeare was a groundbreaking pioneer in his time and wrote plays that were totally different from anything the world had ever seen before. He explored the human spirit and what Big Willy wrote Hamlet between 1599 and 1601, and the play tells the story of Prince Hamlet. Hamlet, in particular, has a lot of "most famous" things in it. It is Shakespeare's most line: "To be or not to be, that is the question." If extraterrestrials were to visit Planet Earth, we would probably put a copy of Hamlet in their welcome basket.

Characteristics of a revenge play and their application in “Hamlet”:

(1) Such play deals with the theme of murder or some crime to the person of the state.

                     In this reference we can say that the central theme of the play “Hamlet” is revenge to be taken. The play “Hamlet” is built upon the long, tragic conflict between Hamlet and Claudius the play namely exposition, gradual development of the plot, the suspense, climax and the catastrophe of the play is the revenge, especially the revenge for the death of father. It is not the plot. In the play “Hamlet” two of the characters’ fathers are brutishly murdered.

(2)The ghost of the dead appears to tell about the identity of the killer.

                     Generally speaking the ghost is a part of the machinery of the revenge play, and as such the ghost in Hamlet. The ghost is primarily connected with the motif of revenge; and so there thing that nobody will question. The opening scene sets the tune of the whole playa play shrouded in mystery and terror. The ghost does indeed visible appear, but it is a shadowy figure, We can observe the subtle skill of Shakespeare in that the ghost is not made to speak but strides away majestically. 

Plot overview=Major conflict:-

            Hamlet feels a responsibility to avenge his father’s murder by his uncle Claudius but Claudius is now in hamlet would be morally justified in taking revenge on his uncle

                In Hamlet the revenge is of son for the murder of father. Revenge the desire to retaliate for an injury is a powerful natural  and dangerous human emotion.

Hamlet the senitimenta dreamer:-

-Leading romantic critics of the late eighteenth and eary nineteenth centuries and gifted in many ways but incapable of positive action.

- Goethe hamlet is a young man of lovely pure and moral nature without the strength of nerve which forms a hero .

- A.W.Schleget – “no firm belief either in himself or in anything else… in the resolution which he so often embracer and always leaves unexecuted his weakness in too apparent.

"If it be, why seems it so particular with thee?" Hamlet disputes Gertrude’s charge that he is being hypocritical, "Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not ‘seems’…"

                  For him, she is the one who has shown hypocrisy and he does not agree with her ‘seems’  Whereas, Hamlet’s social concerns for Denmark is purely centered around the king and the influence he might have on the rest of the kingdom.