Character, Plot, and Theme Development
The play "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, contains complex scenes that interlock; using a mastery of words and hidden meanings behind phrases. Since each scene is a piece that connects to another; it is vital that each scene has certain actions and reactions to bring out other meanings in the play. Thus making character, theme, and plot development critical to each scene. Such development can be tracked through individual scenes and is evident in Act 3, scene 4 as any other. In this scene character development expands immensely. Hamlet, in a fit of rage, demonstrates that he does possess the ability to act by killing Polonis.Polonis: "What, ho! Help, help; help!"Hamlet: "how now! Arat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"Polonis: "O, I am slain"(Act 3, Scene4, line 23-25).This murder is what Hamlet expected to be the demise of Claudius, but is shocked to discover Polonis behind the curtain. Hamlet then turns his aggressions back toward Gertrude; consequently we learn why Hamlet is so upset with his mother as he says: "Such an act. That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; calls virtue hypotite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of innocent love, And sets blister; makes marriage vows As false as dicers'o
Ophelia's confusion pushes her to commit suicide; thus providing Laertes with another motive. This intern advances the play further in the direction of Shakespeare. The plot certainly thickens in Act 3, scene 4. Queen: "This is the very coinage of your brain This bodiless creation of ecstsy Is very cuning in"(Act 3, scene 4, line 138-140)With Hamlet appearing to be insane, a motherly instinct of concern and love washes over Gertrude. We see strength in her as she begins to scold Hamlet for offending Claudius, but as pressure and tensions build, Gertrude folds exposing a weak character. Gertrude is unable to justify her actions and begs Hamlet to stop: "O Hamlet, speak no more. Hamlet then accuses Gertrude of weakness and lust. In coming to conscious for what she has done she begs Hamlet to stop: " O , speak no more; these words, like daggers, enter mine ears: No more Sweet Hamlet!"( Act 3 scene 4, line 95-97). The Ghost also encourages Hamlet to convince Gertrude to confess her sins and set thing right. This action has serious consequences. Hamlet seeks to honor his father's death in an attempt to kill his father's murderer. Polonis's murder also drives away Hamlets love, Ophelia.
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