| Thus, Hamlet wants to revenge for his father's | | | | grief and move on: |
| death. He is intelligent enough to pretend to be | | | | 'I have of late-butwherefore I know not--lost all my |
| mentally ill in order to find out more information about | | | | mirth, forgone allcustom of exercises; and indeed it |
| his uncle Claudius. However, Hamlet is not able to | | | | goes so heavilywith my disposition that this goodly |
| avoid the sad outcomes. Hamlet is noble and is not | | | | frame, theearth, seems to me a sterile promontory.' |
| afraid of death: | | | | (Act II, Scene II) |
| 'To be, or not to be: that is the question: | | | | Consequently, spectators have sympathy for the |
| Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer | | | | tragic hero. The audience sympathizes with Hamlet |
| The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, | | | | because he loses his father and his mother marries |
| Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, | | | | again after his father's funeral. Hamlet loves his |
| And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; | | | | parents and his father's sudden death hurts him |
| No more; and by a sleep to say we end | | | | greatly. This sad event hurts him even more when |
| The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks | | | | he finds out all the truth about his father's death. |
| That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation | | | | Consequently, these events do not allow him forget |
| Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep'. (Act III, | | | | the past and move on. All his actions are done of his |
| Scene I) | | | | own free will. Hamlet could avoid the death. However, |
| Thus, Hamlet's greatest drawback is his indecision | | | | the tragedy consists in that a hero has a free will and |
| that is fully expressed in the remark: 'to be or not to | | | | he takes decisions that lead to a tragedy. |
| be'. When he knows all the bitter truth about his | | | | Summarizing, 'Hamlet' is the classic example of a |
| father's death, he still pretends to be mad and | | | | tragedy, in which the major elements of a tragedy |
| cannot make up his mind to kill Claudius. Although he | | | | are present. Hamlet is intelligent, brave and noble. The |
| loves Ophelia for a ling time, he does not marry her. | | | | audience sympathizes with him. Hamlet's tragedy is |
| Besides, being an adult, he is still a student at school | | | | both self-inflicted and beyond his control. The major |
| in England. His father's death and the appearance of | | | | character of the play, Hamlet, has a tragic drawback |
| father's ghost do not allow Hamlet forget the past. | | | | which leads him to the death. This tragic drawback |
| He does not want to live as the life does not bring | | | | makes him a tragic hero whose weakness leads him |
| him happiness and joy. Hamlet cannot go through the | | | | to the sad outcome that could be avoided. |