Examples Of Suicide In Hamlet

Petar Antovski Professor Matthew Hotsinpiller English 2 19 July 2015 The Mystery of Death Ideas, beliefs and myths pertaining to the mystery of death imbue the eternal story of Hamlet, a work of literature art that can to this day urge its every reader to question their own faith and spirituality. From the beginning we are catapulted into a world where the limits between life and death are blurred, where the worlds of the living and the dead are joined. After all, one of the first characters to appear is the ghost of Old Hamlet. Even in the opening scene Shakespeare establishes a certain fascination with the dead.

In literature many characters go through some sort of change, mostly important, and these characters are known as dynamic characters. An example of a dynamic character is Ebenezer Scrooge from “A Christmas Carol,” Harry Potter, and perhaps the most known dynamic figure in the English literature; Hamlet. Hamlet is a very complicated character that cannot be described in a few short words and his complexities deserve much more. Due to the ambiguities in the text, readers can grasp only certain identities of Hamlet, but readers can dig further into Hamlet’s complex thought process while he is alone, and it is when he is unaccompanied that the true identity of Hamlet is revealed.

Hamlet Soliloquy (An Analysis of Major Themes and Questions Introduced in Soliloquies of Acts 1-3 of Shakespeare’s, Hamlet) What exactly is a soliloquy? Soliloquies are a playwrights method of conveying the most crucial themes and messages to the audience through one character thinking out loud to themselves. Even the most famous tragedy of all time, Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, is filled with critical soliloquies that prove themselves the driving force of the play. Particularly those made by the main character, Hamlet, contain the most thought provoking and intensive messages to the plot. “Hamlet shares his inner feelings, thoughts, and plans for the future.

“Man pleaded innocent by reason of insanity for the murder of his mother”(Gross). Although the case of the man murdering his mother is not entirely similar to what Hamlet does they do share some similarities. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet , Shakespeare uses the idea of a someone murdering one of their own family members in his play. In Hamlet the once ruler of Denmark ,king Hamlet, is long dead before the play begins with everyone thinking his cause of death was from the bite of a snake This is proven to be a lie however, when Ghost of king Hamlet visits his son Hamlet and reveals to him that his true killer is Hamlet’s uncle ,the new king of Denmark, Claudius. The play then follows Hamlet as he tries to take revenge for his father’s death.

In Hamlets' desperate attempt to choose between life and death, he uses body imagery to describe the battle of life, a simplistic metaphor to compare death to sleep, and simple diction against more complex diction to convey his feelings of death all to come to the conclusion that life may be more bearable then what comes in the afterlife. Hamlet validates the uselessness in fighting life by using the body imagery of "tak[ing] arms against a sea of troubles. " This use of body imagery suggests that fighting in life will get you no where. The use of weapons such as a sword, cannon, or bomb would be a pointless attempt in facing a raging sea. The use of the word 'arms' instead of weapons compares the scenario back to human defense against life.

Mankind, according to Bywater’s definition of tragedy, leans towards thoughts of seriousness with a deeper understanding through points made, expressed in dramatic form holding the audience accountable with pity as well as fear. Thoughts represented by Shakespeare’s characters question the motives of man. One cannot help but wonder why men abandon specific, well-thought plans for simple thoughts merely introduced at least once by the conscience. Shakespeare demonstrates the idea of doubt, justification, as well as selfishness, to represent man through his characters Hamlet and the Player King. (one sentence left)

In William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet, Shakespeare recounts the story of a prince who is given the task to avenge the death of his father. The play is centered around Hamlet, a student whose studies are interrupted by his father’s death. After returning to the kingdom, Hamlet encounters a ghost claiming to bear the soul of his father. Upon this confrontation, Hamlet is faced with evidence that his uncle, Claudius, murdered his father, Hamlet I. As a result, Hamlet strategizes to perform revenge on Claudius for his malefaction. Hamlet, the main protagonist, displays a multitude of dynamic traits that emerge as the play develops.

Hamlet’s nature causes him to contemplate the physically of death and its most intimate complications. In Act 1, Hamlets is torn and tortured by grief and misery from the death of his father and the incestuous marriage of his mother with Claudius. So much so, Hamlet considers suicide but restrains himself from doing so due to the possibility of eternal suffering in the afterlife. Hamlet again goes further into contemplation of the afterlife and suicide, in his infamous “To be or not To be” soliloquy. He states in “To be or not To be” that the afterlife is an undiscovered world, and that no one has ever returned.

William Shakespeare tells the tale of a troubled man in his masterpiece, Hamlet. Imagine your beloved father dying and your mother marrying his brother shortly after. You’re left to grieve on your own. Instead of consoling you, your mother and uncle have a wedding and begin to share the same bed. This is what Hamlet suffers through in the play.

The alchemists, the mysterious and honorable work in the Sixteen Century, were being chased because of their immortal secrets, that reflects that most people at that time desired immortality. However, Hamlet, the play created in the Sixteen Century, thought differently. Hamlet, the play written by Shakespeare, talked about a story of a Denmark Prince, whose name was Hamlet, took revenge for his father since his father was murdered by his uncle. His revenge caused the death of his lover, mother, uncle and himself at the end. Hamlet thought about committing suicide and his struggle about life and death were obviously showed in the play.